From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T15:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the version number for rubygems?

Maybe you should tell the Rails team because I'm fairly sure that's
how they planned on handling it...

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6886

--Jeremy

On 1/21/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 21:03, Jeremy McAnally wrote:
> > require 'rubygems'
> >
> > unless Kernel.respond_to? :gem
> >  alias gem require_gem
> > end
> >
> > gem 'ruport'
> >
> > That should work I believe...
>
> NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
>
> #gem and #require_gem do different things (autorequire).
>
> You'll screw over other gems by aliasing things around.
>
> Instead, just fall back to require_gem when gem isn't loaded.
>
> if Kernel.respond_to? :gem then
>    gem blah
> else
>    require_gem blah
> end
>
> DO NOT go aliasing methods on top of each other.  #require and
> #require_gem do different things, much like #sub and #sub! do
> different things, respect that.
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
>
> I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!
>
>
>


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