On 3/8/07, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is an FAQ. Web searching wasn't fruitful. > Am I missing something obvious?
Yes. gem doesn't autorequire. Autorequire was thought to be a good idea, but it turned out to be a mediocre-at-best idea in practice. It is therefore deprecated. So: 1. Don't use #require_gem -- that does autorequire and it will be removed for RubyGems 1.0. 2. Only use #gem when you're trying to fix the gem version to a specific version. The only time when you want to use #gem without a version specification is for gems like soap4r, where partial files are in the standard library but you need to use a wholly different version than is in the standard library. 3. Just use "require 'fcgi'" or whatever the appropriate require for the files contained in the gem are. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
