From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T12:25:42+09:00
Subject: autoload ain't down with the program

I run into a bit of a snag. I've augmented the #require and #load
methods and noticed that #autoload doesn't pick up on it --though the
docs say #autoload uses #require. Apparently it uses it's own internal
code though, separate from any defined in the script. So there seems
to be no way to override #autoload to tie in these augmentations.

This also has an effect on Rubygems, btw. Notice:

   require 'rubygems'
   autoload(:RedCloth, 'redcloth')
   p RedCloth

produces

   no such file to load -- redcloth (LoadError)

even though the redcloth gem is in fact installed.

I suspect there's no way around this. If so, can we get that fixed in
the next release of Ruby?

Thanks,
-T.

(I know, this should probably go to ruby-core list. But I
(purposefully) do not subscribe to that list any more.)