Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> In my gem release would it be a good idea to replace
> all occurrencies of 
>   require 'iterator' 
> with 
>   require 'rubygems'
>   require_gem 'iterator'
> so that the sample directory works ?

This seems reasonable to me for now, but I would hate to
see it everywhere for all time.

> Is there some way to automaticly load 'rubygems' when ruby starts up?

I fear that gems may not be mature/stable enough for this yet. (Please
prove me wrong.)

I was also telling Chad and/or Rich that if gems become a standard, I
would like to see require_gem simply go away.

'require' would be modified so that it looked for a gem before anything
else. This would also make "require 'rubygems'" unnecessary.

But I think we're not there yet.

Hal