# Ruby 1.8.7 automatically loads RubyGems? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 26, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424 "2009-08-26T17:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/1 "2009-08-26T17:49:45Z")
Does Ruby 1.8.7 automatically load gems? I took -rubygems out of my RUBYOPT, and discovered my gems were still getting loaded. Is that true? $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86\_64-linux] T. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/2 "2009-08-26T17:55:02Z")
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:33:35 +0900, Intransition wrote: > Does Ruby 1.8.7 automatically load gems? I took -rubygems out of my > RUBYOPT, and discovered my gems were still getting loaded. Is that true? > > $ ruby -v > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86\_64-linux] > > T. Did you remember to do that in an active shell (with the command “unset RUBYOPT”) or did you do it in your .profile (or .bash\_profile or .bashrc) and expect it to take effect immediately? If you edit your .profile, it doesn’t take effect immediately – you need to log out and log back in. If you edit your .bashrc, you need to open a new shell (and .bashrc is the wrong place for environment variables anyway). ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/3 "2009-08-26T18:13:47Z")
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Intransition[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Does Ruby 1.8.7 automatically load gems? I took -rubygems out of my > RUBYOPT, and discovered my gems were still getting loaded. Is that > true? > > $ ruby -v > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86\_64-linux] > ruby -v -rubygems -e ‘require “rush”’ > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux] > ruby -v -e ‘require “rush”’ > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux] > -e:1:in `require’: no such file to load – rush (LoadError) > from -e:1 ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/4 "2009-08-26T23:48:12Z")
On Aug 26, 9:08 am, Ken B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > RUBYOPT") or did you do it in your .profile (or .bash\_profile or .bashrc) > and expect it to take effect immediately? If you edit your .profile, it > doesn’t take effect immediately – you need to log out and log back in. > If you edit your .bashrc, you need to open a new shell (and .bashrc is > the wrong place for environment variables anyway). $ sudo gem install facets Successfully installed facets-2.7.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for facets-2.7.0… Updating ri class cache with 4818 classes… Installing RDoc documentation for facets-2.7.0… $ unset RUBYOPT $ irb > > ENV[‘RUBYOPT’] > > =\> nil > > require ‘facets’ > > =\> true > > $LOAD\_PATH > > =\> [“/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wirble-0.1.2/bin”, “/usr/lib/ruby/ > > gems/1.8/gems/wirble-0.1.2/.”, “/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8”, “/usr/ > > local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux”, “/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby”, “/ > > usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8”, “/usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/x86\_64- > > linux”, “/usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby”, “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8”, “/usr/lib/ > > ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux”, “.”] > > $LOAD\_PATH.map do |lp| > > ?\> Dir[File.join(lp, ‘facets’)] > > end > > =\> [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []] > > Gem > > =\> Gem It is clearly coming from Gem, but not via RUBYOPT. Is there another way for RubyGems to get loaded automatically? ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/5 "2009-08-27T05:39:57Z")
On Aug 26, 6:32 pm, John B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > irbrc? Damn you Wirble !!! Yes, .irbrc was the source. Thank you. (In hindsight I should have tried ‘ruby -rfacets’. That would have made it obvious. Oh well.) On the upside, I upgraded Wirble, and while I was at it, hacked it a bit to make it better. Thanks for the help, guys. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/6 "2009-08-27T16:43:11Z")
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:39:34 +0900 Trans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On the upside, I upgraded Wirble, and while I was at it, hacked it a > bit to make it better. What did you do? Share! =) ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/7 "2009-08-27T00:33:17Z")
On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Trans wrote: > > the wrong place for environment variables anyway). > > =\> nil > > ?\> Dir[File.join(lp, ‘facets’)] > > > > > end > > > =\> [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []] > > > > > Gem > > > =\> Gem > > It is clearly coming from Gem, but not via RUBYOPT. > > Is there another way for RubyGems to get loaded automatically? irbrc? ~ j. ---
**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-7-automatically-loads-rubygems/174424/8 "2009-08-27T19:35:19Z")
On Aug 27, 10:42 am, spiralofhope [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:39:34 +0900 > > Trans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > On the upside, I upgraded Wirble, and while I was at it, hacked it a > > bit to make it better. > > What did you do? Share! =) > > –[http://spiralofhope.com](http://spiralofhope.com) in #save\_history changed: lines = Readline::HISTORY.to\_a.uniq to lines = Readline::HISTORY.to\_a.reverse.uniq.reverse so that the most recent lines remain. And for now I also got rid of the use of yellow, since I can’t see it on a white background. Is there a conical repository? I would like to fork it and do a little more work besides, maybe add some extra options. T.