From: Matt Todd Date: 2006-08-13T10:55:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Rubygems on Mac OS X You can also do ruby -rrubygems -e "require 'xmlsimple'" which will "require 'rubygems'" for you (because of the "-rrubygems"). Read up on -r if it doesn't click for you. Cheers, M.T.