Tim Connor

Doh - I know better than that.

No worries. If I had any bright ideas, I would have done it myself. We're using thin with a config.ru, anyways, just trying to watch out for other people who mi...

Damn, sorry formatting stripped that last post

"any (missing) dependencies (of already installed gems)"

"any dependencies " sorry left out some words that might have made my point clearer.

Yes this is a contrived example, but it definitely comes up in real situations, and frequently if you have enough complicated gem dependencies.

My tiny patch do...

As I later figured out, and commented about, it's not just a problem with frozen gems, but any dependencies when you have an older version of the gem. And it's ...

The problem isn't just with the load_paths, it's with the require from the dependency when the parent gets loaded.

"rake aborted! can't activate , already activ...

adding patch as preferred according to contrib guide

This at least fixes the worst of the problem - the fact that you can't even run rake gems to check on what is wrong, or rake gems:install to fix it. Rake can st...

Actually, this is just a subset. rake is still way to easy to break with gem dependencies: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/...

I've got a commit I am about to ...