Ruby 1.9.2 / RubyGems 1.8.5 compatibility fix (pass String instead of Pathname to require)

[fallwith]

We need this small fix (cast Pathname objects to String prior to sending them to 'require') for compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2 / RubyGems 1.8.5.

/Users/fallwith/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:971:in `escape': can't convert Pathname to String (TypeError)
from /Users/fallwith/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:971:in `block in loaded_path?'

Regexp.escape which is called by Gem.loaded_path? (/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb) expects the path as a String, not a Pathname. Convert Pathnames to Strings prior to calling 'require'

[zdennis]

This was supposedly fixed in rubygems itself: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/tree/d8abe9b3a5cf0bc5bba495be5c9fbf0fada7586b

But that commit doesn't seem to be in rubygems/master and it's not in the 1.8.5 release.

[zdennis]

Actually it is rubygems/master, just not in the 1.8.5 tag.

[fallwith]

Much obliged. Thanks very much for the quick response and info about the RubyGems commit.