From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2008-05-15T06:03:20+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer and rubygems

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Bill Woodward <wpwood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gotcha, thanks.  I was under the impression that 'gem' would also
> 'require' the module.  Is that the difference between this and the old
> 'require_gem'?

Yes. The 'gem' method just adds the gem's files to Ruby's LOAD_PATH,
but it doesn't actually 'require' (load) any code into the
interpreter.