James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Oct 9, 2004, at 5:43 AM, Chad Fowler wrote: > >> They can coexist peacefully. > > > Just curious. I think I read in the Pickaxe II that RubyGems uses > library stubs by default now? (Please, correct me if I'm wrong.) Would > you need to shut this behavior off if you use both, to keep it from > clobbering an RPA installed library? RubyGems 0.8.0 and later do not use library stubs. They were abandoned because they prevented gems from managing multiple simultaneous versions of a library. However, if you install the *same* library with both RPA and Gems, it's a toss up one which one will actually be chosen at runtime. -- -- Jim Weirich jim / weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)