From: Pawel Szymczykowski <makenai@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T13:47:18+09:00
Subject: require_gem scoping issue?

Hi all,

I'm running into a weird problem with rubygems and using
'require_gem'. Given the following code,

-- being code --

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'mechanize', '>= 0.6.3'

class MyClass

	def initialize
	  @agent = WWW::Mechanize.new # Line 7
	end

end

mc = MyClass.new # Line 12

-- end code --

I get this error:

NameError: uninitialized constant MyClass::WWW

method initialize	in untitled document at line 7
at top level	in untitled document at line 12

Could it be that I'm missing something really obvious? When I replace
the require_gem line with just "require 'mechanize'", it works
according to my expectations. I'm using ruby 1.8.4, rubygems 0.9.0
(also tried with 0.8.11) and mechanize is at 0.6.3 as a gem. It
doesn't seem to matter if the explicit version is there or not, the
same error is produced.

Thanks!

-Pawel