----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skeets" <skillet3232@[...].com> 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@[...].org> 
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: RubyGems Issue


> > Timothy Hunter wrote:
> > Skeets wrote:
> 
> > Don't you mean "require 'rubygems'"? The "require" method causes a file
> > to be loaded. The "include" method adds a module's constants, methods
> > and module variables into the current module.
> 
>  Timothy, that is what i actually did, i just articulated it wrong.
> 
>  if i have rubygems installed, i should be able to automatically...
> 
>  irb> require 'rubygems'
> 
>  right?  or is that wrong?  do i need to do something else to make it
>  work?  could it be confused about the gems directory path (or is
>  directory path irrelevant?)?.
> 
>  tia...
> 
you do not need the require 'rubygems' statement on Windows .. as evidenced 
by the false response which indicates that it has already been loaded