Why Using require ‘rubygems’ Is Wrong

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Thu, 01/29/2009 - 20:41

Ryan Tomayko, currently known as one of the lead developers of Sinatra , was definitely not mincing his words yesterday when he posted Why "require 'rubygems'" In Your Library/App/Tests Is Wrong :

You should never do this in a source file included with your library, app, or tests:

require 'rubygems'

The system I use to manage my $LOAD_PATH is not your library/app/tests concern.

Whether rubygems is used or not is an environment issue. Your library...

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