Require_gem question

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Does require_gem also load all of the listed dependencies in the gem
spec or are those dependencies loaded by manually through require
statements?

so example:
require_gem 'rails'

the rails gem has:
  actionwebservice
  actionmailer
  actionpack
  activerecord
  activesupport
  rake
as listed dependencies.

so does require_gem 'rails' also perform require_gem 'actionamailer',
etc... ? or is there a specific 'require' statement somewhere in 'rails'
?

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require_gem is only useful for picking a particular version of a gem. If you don't manually specify the version of the dependent gems (in dependency order) you'll get whatever their gemspecs need.

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On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:09 AM, Andrew Gibson wrote:

Does require_gem also load all of the listed dependencies in the gem
spec or are those dependencies loaded by manually through require
statements?

so example:
require_gem 'rails'

the rails gem has:
  actionwebservice
  actionmailer
  actionpack
  activerecord
  activesupport
  rake

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