From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T06:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: why is require 'rubygems' sometimes needed?

Hi,

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

How so? I.e., what has been changed that the libraries are automatically
found?

Because currently, with 1.8.7, I think I had some troubles getting my
code portable.

On my home machine, I've installed rubyzip through gem and thus I
required rubygems. On another machine, rubyzip was installed with a
distribution specific mechanism and there were no rubygems at all installed.

How would I tackle this problem? Would I need rescue the rubygem require
 statement? Are there elegant solutions for this?

thanks,
- Markus