[Rubygems-developers] requiring gems

[Jamis Buck]

I've been lurking on the list alot, and recently there was a discussion 
about removing the stub files that get installed for gems, in favor of 
using the RUBYOPTS variable to cause rubygems to be autoinstalled.

This works fine for gems that are accessed at the "top level" (ie, 
"require 'copland'", "require 'activerecord'", and so forth), but what 
about gems that want to behave as if they are "add-ons" to an existing 
directory? I'm thinking of the net-ssh gem, which wants to be required 
as 'net/ssh'.

With the RUBYOPTS approach, would this still work? A quick test on my 
box seems to fail, but I don't have the 'ubygems' require hack 
installed... Would that fix it?

- Jamis

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