From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T05:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygem libs vs Non Rubygem libs

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quoth the Tilman Sauerbeck:
> > >export RUBYOPT=3Drubygems
> >
> > Of course, this isn't such a great solution from inside a library,
> > However, it's not too hard.
>
> If you are the author of some library:
>
> cat <<EOF >>README
> If you're using rubygems, please export RUBYOPT=3Drubygems.
> EOF
>
> Done.

I guess it would be bad form to go setting env variables on someone's syste=
m=20
from within a lib...=20

So you could do:

begin
   require 'rubygems'
rescue LoadError
end
require 'libfoo'

And it would load 'libfoo' either through gems, if present, or regularly if=
=20
not? Is that right?

> Regards,
> Tilman

=2Dd
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
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