From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-06T01:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: snmp gem

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Rohit Mehta wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> require 'rubygems'
>
>
> Thanks Ara!  Typing "SNMP.methods" in irb seems to give
> me good output now.
>
> Do you know why the docs say
>
> require 'snmp'
>
> Should it instead say
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require_gem 'snmp'

nope.  this is the 'fault' of rubygems and has nothing to do with snmp.  all
libs suffer this fate under rubygems but it's very well covered under the
rubygems docs.

>
> One last question. If I installed from a tarball instead of using gem, would
> require 'snmp' work?

exactly.

> Please forgive my newbyish questions!  I am only an egg! Someday a skilled
> ruby programmer will hatch!  Thanks!

careful - you'll get egg on your face ;-)

cheers.

-a
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