On Dec 26, 2007, at 13:44 PM, Gonzalo Garramuñï wrote:

> For ruby, I also turned off RUBYOPT=-rubygems, which is perhaps a  ad incorrect now, as rubygems is now part of 1.9.   That also  
> raises the question whether rubygems *can* be turned off in 1.9 as  
> you could in 1.8.

RubyGems is not loaded in 1.9 until you use it (some method on Gem).   ee gem_prelude.rb for details.

PS: If you're going to change the topic of the thread, please change