From: OZAWA Sakuro Date: 2011-05-02T18:22:10+09:00 Subject: Re: LoadPath and require confusion, please explain The heart is that by implicitly(*1) or explicitly requiring 'rubygems' library it *redefines* Kernel#require to look into gem directories and modify the $LOAD_PATH. * ruby 1.9 does. 1.8 with RUBYOPT -rubygems does, too. 2011/5/2 Lucky Dev : > does ruby look somewhere else apart from load_path when require/load a > feature ? -- OZAWA Sakuro "I think we can agree, the past is over." - George W. Bush