[Rubygems-developers] request_gem vs. gem

[Norman Walsh]

Sorry if this is an FAQ. Web searching wasn't fruitful.

Consider the following:

$ irb1.8
irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require_gem "fcgi"
(irb):2:Warning: require_gem is obsolete.  Use gem instead.
=> true
irb(main):003:0> FCGI
=> FCGI

That seems to work fine, except for the warning about require_gem
being obsolete.

So consider instead:

$ irb1.8
irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> gem "fcgi"
=> true
irb(main):003:0> FCGI
NameError: uninitialized constant FCGI
        from (irb):3

That doesn't seem to work at all.

Am I missing something obvious?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh.com> | Men are more like the times they live
http://nwalsh.com/            | in than they are like their
                              | fathers.--Ali Ibn-abi-talib
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