Autoinstall gems

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No, as the list of files in a gem is only available after installation.

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On Mar 13, 2008, at 01:20 AM, S2 wrote:

Is there a way to autoinstall a gem when it is "required" in an .rb file?

say I have:

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'HOTP'

puts HOTP.new.calculate_hotp('12345', 1, 6)
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Is there a way to make rubygems autoinstall the HOTP gem if it is not already installed?