From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T04:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubygems on Mac OS X

Geoff Hulette wrote:
> I am having a problem getting gems configured properly on my Mac (OS X 
> 10.4.7), hopefully someone here can help me out.  I installed ruby and 
> ruby gems using the instructions at 
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger. 
> I am trying to use the XmlSimple gem, but Ruby can't seem to find it, or 
> any other gems.  I did
> 
> $ sudo gem install xml-simple
> 
> which seemed to work fine.  but then
> 
> $ ruby -e "require 'xmlsimple'"
> -e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- xmlsimple (LoadError)
>         from -e:1

Rubygems is not loaded with your program.  There several ways to 
accomplish this.  This URL will help: 
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page70.

In a nutshell, you should be able to do this:

$ ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'xmlsimple'"

-- Jim Weirich

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