[Rubygems-developers] LOAD_PATH Ordering with Ruby 1.9 Gems

[Jim Weirich]

When I try to override the installed rake in Ruby 1.9 with a gem, I  
get the following error:

/Users/jim/local/ruby19/bin/rake:19:in `load': Is a directory - / 
Users/jim/local/ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/rake-0.8.0/lib/rake  
(Errno::EISDIR)
	from /Users/jim/local/ruby19/bin/rake:19:in `<main>'

It seems that the 'lib' directory in the rake gem preceeds the 'bin'  
directory, so loading 'rake' will find 'lib/rake' and complain about  
that.  Pre-1.9 versions of gem put the bin directory first, so that  
load 'rake' would find that.

Was this a deliberate change?

(Actually, I never liked the whole idea of including the bin  
directory in the load path in the first place.  Seems to me that we  
could have made the executable stub a wee bit smarter ... but I  
digress).

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-- Jim Weirich
-- jim.weirich at gmail.com