From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-01-31T04:31:54+09:00
Subject: Re: "require 'rubygems'" In Your Library/App/Tests Is Wrong?


On Jan 30, 1:21 pm, Josh Cheek <josh.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder how many people _don't_ use rubygems. What creates more work,
> requiring rubygems so that people who don't want it don't have to use it, or
> not requiring rubygems so that people who do want it have to keep putting
> -rubygems when they load files?

You should not have to do that. Just add '-rubygems' to your RUBYOPT
environment variable --that's a necessary part of setting up RubyGems
for one's system.

> Perhaps a compromise? If I am working on some gem that uses mechanize, I
> could require it like this:
>
> def require_gem( gem_name )
>   begin
>     require gem_name
>   rescue LoadError
>     require( begin GEM_MANAGER rescue 'rubygems' end )
>     require gem_name
>   end
> end

You should simply not have to use require 'rubygems' in your code at
all.