That constant should definitely be namespaced, I'll get a new version out today that doesn't do that. I have seen this behavior and it's made testing the gemcutter gem hard, since I have to uninstall all local versions in order to get my working copy loaded.
-Nick On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jim Weirich <jim.weir...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know some work was put into making require 'rubygems' as lightweight as > possible, so I was a little surprised to find that requiring rubygems into > my program will also load any gem plugins that might be defined. I thought > the plugins were for the gem command, not for general rubygems usage. > > Demonstration: > > $ irb > irb(main):001:0> URL > NameError: uninitialized constant URL > from (irb):1 > irb(main):002:0> require 'rubygems' > => true > irb(main):003:0> URL > => "http://gemcutter.org"; > > URL is defined in the gemcutter gem's gem plugin so that's a good > indication that gems plugins are loaded with require rubygems. > > (And yes, I consider a top level, non-namespaced constant to be a bug and > have submitted a patch to gemcutter to fix that). > > Comments. Is this intended, or something that slipped through the cracks. > > -- > -- Jim Weirich > -- jim.weir...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Rubygems-developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
