From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T07:53:41+09:00
Subject: Re: why is require 'rubygems' sometimes needed?

> If not, then you can make your code one line shorter.

As trivial as it may sound, but this extra line in my code was one 
reason I did not use rubygems. I really did not want to specifically 
require rubygems, just to require _another_ library.

Let's go back in time, and think about a ruby version which did not have 
yaml inbuilt, but rubygems existed already (yes, yes, this is 
speculative...)

One would always have to do:

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'yaml'

Before using yaml datasets. To me this means a bit of extra work, and I 
found it
much easier to just omit the first line.

I am glad that ruby 1.9.x changed this behaviour (for the better).
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