From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T00:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem-only releases

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:27:56AM +0900, darren kirby wrote:
> begin
>   require 'rubygems'
> rescue LoadError
> end

export RUBYOPT=rubygems

(this works for most cases; where it doesn't work is in specifying a
file to require on the command line with -r)

> so that it may work for both. I plain and simple don't understand why 
> the  "require 'rubygems'" is required (pardon the pun), to make gem installed 
> libs visable to Ruby.
> 
> Now really, I'm just a dilatant in this whole software development biz and 
> realize the core Ruby hackers are a lot smarter than me, so I am sure there 
> is a sound technical reason for it or it wouldn't be. That said, I would sure 
> love to hear a rational for it...  

Rubygems used to use library stubs for transparency.  Perhaps one of the
active Rubygems developers can better explain why they were removed.

Paul