From: Fela Winkelmolen <fela.kde@...>
Date: 2010-05-09T00:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 'require "rubygems" necessory?

> I create a sample app in padrino. orm is sequel and db is sqlite3 as
> default. When I rake sq:migrate:auto, it will failed because of database
> is not loaded. So I run the irb, and in irb require 'sqlite3' failed.
> But It will be ok if I require 'rubygems' before require 'sqlite3'. Is
> 'require "rubygems" necessory?

It is if you are using ruby 1.8.x. Since ruby 1.9 the gem directories are part 
of the path by default, so it isn't needed any more.