From: John Fink <john.fink@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T23:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: debugging bad gems?

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On 8/2/06, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
>
> John Fink wrote:
> > [...] However, neither of these two gems work.  For sruby I get the
> > following in irb:
> >
> >>> require 'sru'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- sru
> >         from (irb):1:in `require'
> >         from (irb):1
>
> The fact that there is no reference to RubyGem's custom_require in your
> backtrace leads me to suspect that you don't have RubyGems loaded.  Put
> an explicit "require 'rubygems'" in the code, use the -rubygems switch
> on the command line, or set the RUBYOPT environment variable to
> 'rubygems'.
>
> >
> > The marc gem does require correctly, but when it comes time to execute
> > the
> > sample code listed I get the following error from irb:
> >
> >     reader = MARC::Reader.new('batch.dat')
> >
> > NameError: uninitialized constant MARC::Reader
> >         from (irb):2
> >         from :0
>
> Don't know about this, but I would double check the RubyGems issue first
> before pursuing other options.
>
> -- Jim Weirich
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.



Did require 'rubygems' in irb -- now require 'sru' returns false instead of
choking like it did earlier.  Still doesn't work though, natch.  MARC fails
in the same way.  Weirdness.

jf

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