Bug #6123: Properly gemify BigDecimal

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [x86_64-linux]

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

BigDecimal is available as a gem, however, the version in Ruby is crippled. It just tries to mimic gems, but it is not gem. So currently:

$ ruby -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
true
$ ruby --disable-gems -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
true

However, I would expect following behavior:

$ ruby -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
true
$ ruby --disable-gems -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
fail

The point is that the bigdecimal.so is still in Ruby's load path, although it should be managed by RubyGems if it is gem. Moreover, if the independent gem in RubyGems.org would be updated, it will never be used. Please consider fixing it.

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Better to say, the expected behavior is:

$ ruby --disable-gems -e "puts require('bigdecimal')"
-e:1:in require': cannot load such file -- bigdecimal (LoadError) from -e:1:in '

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Please note that I picked the BigDecimal just randomly. It applies to all other "gems" which are currently bundled in Ruby.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

This is not only for bigdecimal but also io-console, json, minitest, psych, rake, and rdoc.
It is because they are not true gem, they are fake gem.

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Could you please enlighten me what is the purpose of fake gem then? Even if you install updated BigDecimal from rubygems.org, the bundled version will won unless you use "gem 'bidgecimal'" somewhere in the code. This makes no sense.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

Vit Ondruch wrote:

Could you please enlighten me what is the purpose of fake gem then? Even if you install updated BigDecimal from rubygems.org, the bundled version will won unless you use "gem 'bidgecimal'" somewhere in the code. This makes no sense.

It is another issue; could you make another ticket and assign it to Eric Hodel?

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Happily: #6124

Thank you.

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Related to Feature #5481: Gemifying Ruby standard library added