[Rubygems-developers] The replacement for 'require_gem'

[Jim Weirich]

We've been talking about a replacement for 'require_gem' that does not 
do the auto-requiring.  Several names have been suggested (e.g. 
activate_gem).

Here's what I'm leaning towards:

   require "rubygems"
   gem 'rails', '= 1.0.0'
   gem 'rake', '= 0.7.0.1'
   gem 'activesupport', '= 1.2.5'
   gem 'activerecord', '= 1.13.2'
   gem 'actionpack', '= 1.11.2'
   gem 'actionmailer', '= 1.1.5'
   gem 'actionwebservice', '= 1.0.0'

I like it because I don't have to explain what 'activate' means :)

Comments?

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