From: Vladsialv Tchernev <vladislav.tchernev@...>
Date: 2006-04-13T01:57:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Using gems problem -- LoadError

Thank you Austin .. that was it.. I was using wrong libraries names 

Cheers
Vlad

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 11:06 am, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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 are
> represented in the gem, not the gem itself.
>
> With some gems, you can autorequire the code by requiring_gem-ing the
> gem, but this functionality may ultimately go away and it is dependent
> on each gem.
>
> The xml-simple gem documentation should indicate what you must include.
>
> -austin
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