[Nitro] Using ruby-openid/ruby-yadis w/o ruby gems

[George Moschovitis]

Dear devs,

I am trying to use the ruby-openid/ruby-yadis gems without ruby gems,
ie I just copied the lib files in a local lib directory (and placed
this in the LOAD_PATH). When running the application I get the
following error:

/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:188:in
`remove_method': method `description=' not defined in
Gem::Specification (NameError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:
188:in `overwrite_accessor'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:
331
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:502
        from ./lib/openid/discovery.rb:7
        from ./lib/openid/consumer.rb:7
        from ./lib/openid.rb:2

The offending code is:

require "openid/util"
require "openid/service"
require "openid/parse"

# try and use the yadis gem, falling back to system yadis
begin
  require 'rubygems'  <-------------------------------- HERE !
  require_gem 'ruby-yadis', ">=0.3.3"
rescue LoadError
  require "yadis"
end

I am wondering if any rubygems guru can provide a solution.

thanks in advance,
-g.

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