Manfred/broach — pull request #6 by richmeyers (2011-10-11 15:44:32+00:00)
Title: Delete rubygems require

`require "rubygems" rescue nil` does not work as one might expect:

% irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'foo' rescue nil
LoadError: no such file to load -- foo
from (irb):1:in `require'
from (irb):1
% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-12-24 patchlevel 248) [x86_64-linux], MBARI 0x6770, Ruby Enterprise Edition 2010.01

Rubygems should not be required by libraries at all, please see https://gist.github.com/54177 for background.

This pull request deletes the require entirely.