From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-01-21T16:09:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting the version number for rubygems?

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!

There you go being an asshole again Eric. (please stop)

> 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.

I'm aware of this.  I actually need to just lock version and do a
normal require.

I'll do it that way.