From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality Date: 2006-08-18T16:40:10+09:00 Subject: Re: require and the site_ruby directory... "Hal Fulton" wrote in message news:44E560C0.5040501@hypermetrics.com... > Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote: >> >> I appreciate that it's hard to tell. >> I don't really know what gems are and I generally try to avoid things >> I don't understand. >> If you go to the sourceforge download site: >> >> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1453&release_id=6508 >> >> You'll see that it comes in a .zip file with all the files in it. >> Now, pehaps this opinion is naive of me but if the package doesn't simply >> work as it is packaged, then it is horribly broken. I mean, really, what >> does the gem do that's so different and what necessitates this >> difference? > > It may be broken. > > What was in the zip file? Was there a setup.rb and if so, did you > run it? Well, if you follow the link, you can see for yourself! There was no setup.rb or anything, although I've seen that before. There was basically just two directories. One had mechanize and all it needed (except for htmltools, which I had to go get, myself) and the other hosted a rather large test application. At least, I assume it was a test program since it was in a directory called "test."