From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T15:42:39+09:00
Subject: Re: why is require 'rubygems' sometimes needed?

Jason Lillywhite wrote:
> I noticed that some libraries (such as wx or gnuplot) need to have
>
> require 'rubygems'
>
> before the require of the actual library of interest. But some other
> libraries (such as gsl) do not require this. Can someone explain why
> this is the case?
>
> Thank you!
>   

Just as a note (as your question has already been answered), requiring 
rubygems is no longer needed in Ruby 1.9.

-Justin