From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T14:03:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the version number for rubygems?

require 'rubygems'

unless Kernel.respond_to? :gem
  alias gem require_gem
end

gem 'ruport'

That should work I believe...

--Jeremy

On 1/20/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> > On Jan 20, 2007, at 20:11, Gregory Brown wrote:
> > > In ruport I have a tool that generates a bunch of boilerplate code for
> > > folks, and in it, I use require_gem to lock the files down to a
> > > specific version of Ruport.
> > >
> > > I'd like to make this friendly to RubyGems 0.9.1 by using the gem
> > > method rather than require_gem when people have 0.9.1, but want to
> > > generate require_gem for older versions.
> >
> > Just use #gem, and don't bother being backwards-compatible.  RubyGems
> > older than 0.9.1 has a serious security exploit.  (About 20% of
> > rubyists are running a version of RubyGems without #gem (prior to
> > 0.9.1's release).)
>
> I'll probably do this by the next release, but the one coming up in a
> week or two i'd like to give people a bit of grace period.
>
> > > So basically, is there a constant or method I can call that'll give me
> > > back the version of rubygems that i'm running?
> >
> > Don't think so hard:
> >
> > require 'rubygems'
> > Kernel.respond_to? :gem
>
> Yep, that's better. thanks.
>
>


-- 
My free Ruby e-book:
http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/

My blogs:
http://www.mrneighborly.com/
http://www.rubyinpractice.com/