From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-04-13T00:06:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Using gems problem -- LoadError

On 4/12/06, Vladsialv Tchernev <vladislav.tchernev@broadsign.com> wrote:> Hello all,> I am a newbie with ruby and gems and I have this frustrating problem not being> able to load any gem I install. I am running Ubuntu 5.10 and I have just> installed ruby1.8 deb (1.8.4) and have compiled rubygems-0.8.11 without any> problem. I am able to load rubygems (require 'rubygems') and I setup RUBYOPT> var as advised in gems doc (export RUBYOPT=rubygems). However, when I try to> load a gem ($ruby1.8 -e "require 'some_gem' ") I always get an error (This is> for xml-simple gem:
Try "require 'xml/simple'". One has to require the libraries that arerepresented in the gem, not the gem itself.
With some gems, you can autorequire the code by requiring_gem-ing thegem, but this functionality may ultimately go away and it is dependenton each gem.
The xml-simple gem documentation should indicate what you must include.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca