From: Andre Nathan <andre@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T05:38:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Using gems from C extensions

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 05:33 +0900, Rados��aw Bu��at wrote:
> Maybe the better way is just use only rb_require("json") in C
> extension. Before loading extension, in ruby code user should manually
> do require "rubygems". I think it's better way because it doesn't
> assume that user has rubygems installed. In ruby1.9 there is no
> problem because rubygems is built-in into core.

This is for a controlled environment. I know I have rubygems :)

I just wanted to understand why the explicit call to "gem" is needed,
since in ruby code it isn't.

Best,
Andre