From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T06:12:53+09:00
Subject: Re: crate 0.1.1 Released

Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:04:32AM +0900, Luis Lavena wrote:
...
>> I'll need to check it out how it works with gems that depends on
>> extensions, since dlopen / LoadLibrary needs a real file and cannot
>> map a memory address to load the symbols (just thinking out loud here,
>> maybe you already figured this out).
> 
> You might call it cheating, what I do is clear out $LOAD_PATH after
> initializing the interpreter and before handing off control to the
> wrapped up ruby application.  The require order is then, the ruby
> original require followed by the amalgalite overridden require.  
> 
> That way, if the require is a loaded module (which is now statically
> compiled in) the ruby internal rb_require() will return success, and if
> it is a .rb file LoadError will be raised and then amalgalite will take
> care of loading the appropriate file from the sqlite database.

So, still wondering about Luis's question... how do you load extensions?

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