From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2010-05-09T00:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 'require "rubygems" necessory?

On 5/8/2010 9:19 AM, mengjiang Liu wrote:
> Fela Winkelmolen wrote:
>   
>>> 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.
>>     
> You are right. All the gems include sequel and padrino is lastest except 
> the ruby is 1.8.7. Must I install the ruby 1.9 to develop padrino app?
>   
No, you just have to require rubygems before using them.
> gem env:
> H:\study\fybjy\myoa>gem env
> RubyGems Environment:
>   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6
>   - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i386-mingw32]
>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: H:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: H:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe
>   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: H:/Ruby/bin
>   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>     - ruby
>     - x86-mingw32
>   - GEM PATHS:
>      - H:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
>      - C:/Users/limux/.gem/ruby/1.8
>   - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>      - :update_sources => true
>      - :verbose => true
>      - :benchmark => false
>      - :backtrace => false
>      - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>      - "install" => "--env-shebang"
>      - :sources => ["http://rubygems.org"]
>      - "update" => "--env-shebang"
>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>      - http://rubygems.org
>