Question

I am using marcel’s aws-s3 gem. I’m trying to require it in my project:

gem 'aws-s3', :require => 'aws/s3'

However, it doesn’t get required:

irb(main):003:0> require 'aws/s3'
=> false

How can I get rid of the AWS::S3:: namespace?

Answer 1

If you are using Bundler, the :require part in the Gemfile already should require the gem. Requiring it again manually will then return false. Try it with something from the stdlib, e.g. start IRB and require ‘set’ twice in a row.

Regarding the AWS::S3:: part. Assume for a moment that Bundler or require would get rid of all the namespacing and you’d use the AWS gem in a Rails app, how’d you distinguish between AWS::S3::Base and ActiveRecord::Base? If you really still want to get rid of the namespace, include AWS and include S3.