Question

I’m making a gem (lets call it stackoverflow), and in order for it to work, I need to require another gem (lets say I need typhoeus) in the gems code. Do I need to do anything outside of the normal

require rubygems
require gemname

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Answer 1

Define it as a dependency in your gemspec. Check out the Specification Reference, or more specifically, #add_runtime_dependency over at RubyGems guides (Which is awesome, by the way). This ensures that your libraries dependencies will be installed along with your own gem.

Apart from that, just use require as you would have before. Happy hacking!