From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T22:07:56+09:00
Subject: Re: require not working on server

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Pritchard <jp@jeffpritchard.com> wrote:
> Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> Even if you don't have an idea to share, can somebody fill me in on how
> rubygems "works"?
> Does the "require 'rubygems'" bring in some code that effectively
> replaces the ruby 'require'?

Well, more or less, I don't know.  But I know _some_ of it.
When you go back to 1.8.5,  you needed to
require 'rubygems'
#before you required a gem
require 'camping'

I think (for ready-made gems) mostly what it does is add path
information, but it also sets up logic to crawl the dependencies of a
gem, so it can load the libraries the gem requires, IFF they happen to
also be gems.

I'm pretty sure when 1.8.6 came out, however, you no longer needed to
require rubygems.  You could just:

require 'camping'

--Kyle