在尝试解决在irb中找到的Gem时,而不是在Ruby中,我试着看看require 'rubygems'对我自己的安装有什么影响:
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.7"
irb(main):002:0> $:
["/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", "."]
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> require "rubygems" # Hasn't been required already
=> true
irb(main):004:0> require "rubygems" # Will return false, because it's already been required
=> false
irb(main):005:0> $: # Same as before
=> ["/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby", "/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8", "/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux", "/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux", "."]
如果请求rubygems不修改$:,那么它如何帮助查找文件？它是monkeypatch require吗？如果是这样,它使用什么变量来查找rubygem安装的库？