From: Thomas Wieczorek Date: 2008-03-07T06:18:47+09:00 Subject: Re: requiring rubygems On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Tim wrote: > When do you have to > require rubygems when using a gem? What does requiring rubygems > actually accomplish? > You don't need to require rubygems, if you defined the enviroment variable RUBYOPT=-rubygem. RUBYOPT is not set on Windows if you install Ruby with a normal user account.