From: Gregory Brown Date: 2007-08-02T04:51:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Railless ActiveRecord [Problem 2] On 8/1/07, Ari Brown wrote: > > Because gem() doesn't require anything. > > Bwah? But I've used it before! How can this be? This behaviour has been on the way out since before 0.9.0. Just use: require "rubygems" require "active_record" gem() is meant to be used only to lock a gem to a specific version, not to load a library. As far as the warnings go, it's because the Rails core team is too cool for ruby -w :-/