From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-04-25T09:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Ruby/Rubygems/gem path problem

On Apr 24, 2009, at 17:38, Pito Salas wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Apr 24, 2009, at 13:49, Pito Salas wrote:
>>
>>> # see that it refuses to see the shoulda gem from the command line
>>> $ ruby -rshoulda -e "puts 1"
>>> ruby: no such file to load -- shoulda (LoadError)
>>> $ ruby -rubygems -rshoulda -e "puts 1"
>>> ruby: no such file to load -- shoulda (LoadError)
>>> $ ruby -rubygems -rshoulda -e "puts 1"
>>
>> the -r command line option uses rb_require() the C function, not
>> Kernel#require the method.  1.9 does not have this limitation.
>
> Eric, thanks. I am not sure of the implication of that. Are you saying
> therefore that one cannot rely on -rrubygems -rshoulda to work?

With ruby 1.8, no.  There is a workaround though:

ruby -rubygems -e 'require "shoulda"; ...'