From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T04:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?

On 8/11/05, Mark J. Reed <mreed@thereeds.org> wrote:
> After installing pathname2 on my Windows box went so well, I decided to
> go ahead and install it elsewhere for consistency, and it universally failed.
> On the same Windows box under Cygwin, on Linux, on Mac OS X, I got the same
> result.  The gem installation appeared to succeed but Ruby couldn't find
> the newly-installed module file.  Any help?
> 
> $ sudo gem install pathname2
> Password:
> Attempting local installation of 'pathname2'
> Local gem file not found: pathname2*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'pathname2'
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Install required dependency facade? [Yn]  y
> Successfully installed pathname2-1.1.0
> Successfully installed facade-1.0.1
> Installing RDoc documentation for pathname2-1.1.0...
> Installing RDoc documentation for facade-1.0.1...
> $ irb -r pathname2
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:215:in `require': No such file to load -- pathname2 (LoadError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:215:in `load_modules'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:213:in `each'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:213:in `load_modules'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start'
>         from /usr/bin/irb:13
> $
> 
> 


try this:

irb -r rubygems -r pathname2