From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T06:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7 automatically loads RubyGems?



On Aug 26, 9:08 am, Ken Bloom <kbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:33:35 +0900, Intransition wrote:
> > Does Ruby 1.8.7 automatically load gems? I took -rubygems out of my
> > RUBYOPT, and discovered my gems were still getting loaded. Is that true?
>
> > $ ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]
>
> > T.
>
> Did you remember to do that in an active shell (with the command "unset
> RUBYOPT") or did you do it in your .profile (or .bash_profile or .bashrc)
> and expect it to take effect immediately? If you edit your .profile, it
> doesn't take effect immediately -- you need to log out and log back in.
> If you edit your .bashrc, you need to open a new shell (and .bashrc is
> the wrong place for environment variables anyway).

$ sudo gem install facets
Successfully installed facets-2.7.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for facets-2.7.0...
Updating ri class cache with 4818 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for facets-2.7.0...
$ unset RUBYOPT
$ irb
>> ENV['RUBYOPT']
=> nil
>> require 'facets'
=> true
>> $LOAD_PATH
=> ["/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wirble-0.1.2/bin", "/usr/lib/ruby/
gems/1.8/gems/wirble-0.1.2/.", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8", "/usr/
local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby", "/
usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8", "/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-
linux", "/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8", "/usr/lib/
ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux", "."]
>> $LOAD_PATH.map do |lp|
?>   Dir[File.join(lp, 'facets')]
>> end
=> [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []]
>> Gem
=> Gem

It is clearly coming from Gem, but not via RUBYOPT.

Is there another way for RubyGems to get loaded automatically?