From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-03-21T18:47:00+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems - did install went ok?

 --- Jason Creighton <androflux@softhome.net.remove.to.reply> wrote: 

> I think that you have to do
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require_gem 'iterator'

That is how I did it (tm)

[..snip..]

> [1] The more messing around we do with $LOAD_PATH, the more (IMHO) it
> looks like it would be nice to have a system-wide "init.rb" that was
> required automatically when Ruby starts. The default init.rb could look
> something like this:

This is a good idea and something that I thought about doing in the past.
At present there is a workaround for it, but as you say Jason, it is only
on a per-user basis.

> export RUBYOPT="-r$HOME/prog/ruby/init"

Oh well. Come what may, we shall see.

-- Thomas Adam

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