require_gem is obsolete

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm not sure why rake migrate would be disappearing on you with this. However, you've recently upgraded RubyGems and have not upgrade some code that still uses require_gem -- which is obsolete and will be removed soon.

-austin

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I'm not sure why rake migrate would be disappearing on you with this. However, you've recently upgraded RubyGems and have not upgrade some code that still uses require_gem -- which is obsolete and will be removed soon.

I really hope that's not true, as a ton of apps use require_gem including stuff in the latest version of rails. If they remove it anytime soon stuff is going to break left and right.

Chris

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Then the current version of rails is broken. require_gem is bad juju.

#require_gem will be removed for RubyGems 1.0.

-austin

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Austin Ziegler wrote:

Then the current version of rails is broken. require_gem is bad juju.

Why did it get renamed? What's wrong with calling it require_gem?

I remember the fanfare when it was invented - everyone was delighted. That might not validate its name, though...