Forum: Ruby How to deactivate RubyGems?

Is there are way to run ruby the old fashioned way -- without RubyGems?

Thanks.

Jep:

 ruby --disable-gems -S irb

Thanks, Florian. I thought there was I just couldn't remember how it was
done.

Follow-up question... Do you have any idea if this sets a flag that can 
be
accessed from Ruby code?

I'm working on a project that can be configured to omit GEM_PATH from 
it's
searches. I was thinking that maybe I could tap into this flag instead 
of
using my own env variable.