My apologies if this has been asked before. I'm a newbie to gems and
was wondering if the actual .gem file can be used by the Ruby
interpreter without having to 'install' it into a particular
location. Something like how .jar files can be used?
As Eric said, you cannot use gems without installing them first. Very early on, the gems team discussed hacking the require command to load ruby source from a zipped up gem, but that approach would work with .so or .dll files, so we didn't even try to got that route.
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