From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T02:41:43+09:00
Subject: Re: behavior of -rsomegem differs from require 'somegem'

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:03:02AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:16:37AM +0900, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> > I just encountered something today and I'm not sure if this should be
> > the expected behaviour.  Most likely I'm doing something odd here. I
> > believe this only affects items require'd as gems.
> [snip]
> > Is this the expected behaviour that -rsomegem behaves differently than
> > 'require "somegem"'.  Is the handling of -r different than 'require'
> > 
> loading rubygems alters the Kernel#require method. -r doesn't actually
> call Kernel#require, it directly invokes the underlying C function(s)
> the method calls. Therefore, rubygems is incapable of changing the
> behavior of -r.

Thanks!

-r using the underlying C function(s).  That's the clarification I
needed.


enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org