From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-11-14T04:36:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reload available rubygems in a long running process

On Nov 12, 2007, at 10:48 , Tom Werner wrote:
> In my Ruby monitoring framework, god, I have the ability to load  
> configuration files into an already running god instance. This  
> allows the user to create new watches without having to restart  
> god. There is a problem, however, if the config file to be loaded  
> requires a gem that was installed *after* god was started. The  
> rubygems system discovers and caches the available gems when it is  
> initially required, ignoring any gems that are installed after that.
>
> I have not been able to find an easy way to have rubygems reload  
> its cache of available gems from a running Ruby program. Does  
> anyone know of a decent way to accomplish this?

Gem.clear_paths

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