From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T18:15:56+09:00
Subject: Re: gems and require

On 3/18/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> > Furthermore, there's no way to find out
> > what file I *do* need to require other than looking at the directory
> > structure of the gem. An option to gem that would list all requirable
> > files would be a nice addition.
>
> You mean "gem contents"?

> $ gem contents memcache-client
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/History.txt
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/LICENSE.txt
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/Manifest.txt
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/README.txt
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/Rakefile
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/lib/memcache.rb
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/lib/
> memcache_util.rb
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.3.0/test/
> test_mem_cache.rb

No - that just spits out everything in the gem. What's needed is a
command that just lists those files in the directories that 'gem' adds
to $:

martin