Stephan KçÎper ha scritto:


> With gems you need to
> 
>     require 'rubygems'
> 
> before
> 
>     require 'session'
> 
> for some reason.
 > I guess the point is, that this way rubygems is able to install a
 > missing gem.

the reason is that rubygems uses require_gem to load a gem with a 
specific version, and that method is not built in.

> 
> What I don't like as much is that I have to think whether I installed 
> something as a gem or not. I'd rather my ruby installation would find a 
> gem-installed file even without 'require "rubygems"' (although I might 
> not have the additional service of installing/updating missing and/or 
> outdated gems during runtime).

see the latest announce. Something like setting RUBYOPT="rubygems" 
should be enough for you to get away ignoring if you're using gems or 
something else.