From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T22:16:53+09:00
Subject: Re: gem requires not working

Steve Ross wrote:
> Devin Mullins wrote:
>> Steve Ross wrote:
>>> The odd thing is that any requires *inside a Rails app* seem to find the
>>> gems just fine. I assume that's because Rails munges the load paths.
>> Actually it's because of config/boot.rb in your Rails app. Specifically:
>>      require 'rubygems'
>> 
>> If your code was working before, and didn't need this, then it's
>> possible that you had had RUBYOPT set.
>> 
>> Devin
> 
> You're right, it's the explicit:
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> 
> Shouldn't this be implicit? Or am I misremembering...
> 
> Thanks

It's not a standard part of Ruby, it's an external library, so it should 
remain explicit.  If you're using it on your system you most likely do 
want to set RUBYOPT="-r rubygems".


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