From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T07:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.7 automatically loads RubyGems?

On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Trans wrote:
> 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?

irbrc?


~ j.