From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-13T11:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Using gems in a script or irb

Demonic Software wrote:
> I am in the process of trying to setup a ruby development environment (not
> for Ruby on Rails), and I was wondering how I go about using ruby gems in a
> script or from irb.

This works:

$ echo $RUBYOPT
rubygems

That causes ruby to run as if you specified -rubygems on the command 
line, and there is a lib called ubygems.rb (without the "r") that this 
loads and which then sets up gems.

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