From: Allison Newman <demallien@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T03:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Intermittant problem with Hpricot

David Vallner wrote:

> 
> This might or might not be related, but I think there was some change to
> the semantics of require_gem lately (appeared in a post or thread a week
> or two ago?), or HPricot might have been changed not to load any files
> when the gem is loaded.
> 
> Either way, (I think) you should just use #require, not #require_gem and
> directly require files inside the Hpricot gem - Rubygems is intended to
> be as transparent to use as possible, and at least personally I prefer
> code agnostic to how a certain library might be packaged on the given
> system.
> 
> Try using require 'hpricot' instead or require_gem 'hpricot' and see if
> that helps?
> 
> Also, Rails has a hard dependency on rubygems, so you don't need to
> require those in Rails code.
> 
> David Vallner

Yup, that seems to fix the problem, thanks.  It's still wierd that the 
problem was intermittent though!!!!

I think I may leave the code in the Hpricot.parse form, just to be sure, 
until I have some time to more fully investigate the problem.

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