On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:42:33 +0900, Bill Atkins <batkins57 / gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written a library that I plan to distribute as a RubyGem, but I
> think it's a little crazy to require all users of this library to do
> 
>   require 'rubygems'  # or RUBY_OPT="-rubygems"
>   require_gem 'oscar'
> 
> Can't I tell RubyGems to install my gem straight to the RUBY_LIB
> directory instead of having it go into its own separate folder?

No.  You can't.  We used to install stubs, but they were messy, so we
took it out.  We've also discussed (since RubyConf, actually) the idea
of doing a "gem deploy" or something like that which would move a
gem'd version of an installed lib to the RUBY_LIB directory.  We
obviously still haven't done this.  If you're interested in this
feature and have some free time, patches are welcome. ;)

> Ideally, users should install my library and then just do "require
> 'oscar' "
> 

Yea, that's what the RUBYOPT thing is for.

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