From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T23:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems support issue

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:45:02 +0900, jason_watkins@pobox.com
<jason_watkins@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Where should I go for a rubygems support question?
> 

Hi!  ruby-talk will work, or there's always the rubygems-developers
list on RubyForge.

> And if anyone here wants to take a crack, I'm getting a variety of
> errors. This is on FreeBSD RELENG. From an irb session, 'require
> rubygems' appears to evaluate properly, but then requiring any specific
> gem evaluates to false.
> 

Are you doing require_gem or require?  Also, can you tell us your
"ruby -v" and "gem -v"?

> Likewise when working from the main ruby interpreter. No error is given
> other than any reference to a required gem is uninitialized.
> 
> Oddly enough, a simple test of one gem I have installed, linguistics,
> does appear to work partly. Although the 'require 'linguistics' '
> evaluates to false, it does appear to run some code, and gives me a
> path error when attempting to enclude the 'en' linguistics extension.
> 

I'm afraid there's a problem with the linguistics gem (my fault), so
it might not be a good one to test with.  RedCloth or BlueCloth are
always nice simple ones to test with when you're having gems-related
issues.

> So I suspect there's something wrong in the path configuration of my
> rubygems install.
> 
>

The output of "gem env" might also be helpful.

Thanks!
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