From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-21T05:42:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Current rubygems require idiom

On Aug 20, 2007, at 10:20, ara.t.howard wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Bil Kleb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I currently have,
>>
>>  begin
>>    require 'funit'
>>  rescue LoadError
>>    require 'rubygems'
>>    require 'funit'
>>  end
>>
>> What /should/ I be using?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Bil Kleb
>> http://nasarb.rubyforge.org
>>
>
> i personally use
>
> begin
>   require 'rubygems'
> rescue LoadError
>   42
> end
>
> require 'a'
> require 'b'
> require 'c'
> require 'd'
>
> as it's quite a bit drier and easier to comment out the rubygems  
> when you want to test a 'normal' or otherwise non-rubygems install.

No need to comment anything out, just use ruby -I to override  
RubyGems.  So long as the files you require are already in $LOAD_PATH  
RubyGems won't activate any gems.

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