[Rubygems-developers] Can't require 'rubygems/specification' anymore?

[Eric Hodel]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 05:34, Trans wrote:

>  require 'rubygems/specification'
>  NameError: uninitialized constant Gem
>      from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:28
>      from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:7:in
> `require'
>      from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:7
>      from (irb):1:in `require'
>      from (irb):1

You need to require 'rubygems' first.

PS: No, require 'rubygems' won't be added to rubygems/specification.   
It leads to circular require warnings in 1.9.