From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-02-01T05:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: "require 'rubygems'" In Your Library/App/Tests Is Wrong?

On Jan 30, 5:00 pm, Joe Wangkauf <tmo1...@invalid.gmail.domain.com>
wrote:
> I found the write up athttp://gist.github.com/54177very interesting.
> In it Ryan states:
>
> > You should never do this in a source file included with your library,
> > app, or tests:
>
> >     require 'rubygems'
>
> > The system I use to manage my $LOAD_PATH is not your library/app/tests
> > concern.
>
> Fair enough.  However this implies that there are other managers.  But
> I really haven't heard of any.  Seems like everyone uses Rubygems, and
> now it's part of 1.9.  So, if there are other managers, what are they?
> Google doesn't really turf up anything definitive (maybe using the term
> 'rubygems alternatives' was too vague).
>

Rip:

http://hellorip.com/

Bundler
(To overwrite and disable system gems)

http://github.com/wycats/bundler

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Luis Lavena