From: Skeets <skillet3232@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T03:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems Issue

> Probably you're doing nothing wrong. When "require" returns false it
> doesn't mean it failed, it only means that whatever you're requiring is
> already loaded. When require fails it raises an exception:
>
> ruby$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'notthere'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- notthere
>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0>
>
> What this means is that you've already got "rubygems" loaded. At a guess
> I'd say that you have a RUBYOPT environment variable with the value
> "rrubygems" or something similar.

thank you very much.  that result is not intuitive (especially since
the tutorial for fxruby displayed 'true' when doing this), but now that
you explained how it works, i can move on and start learning some
fxruby.

thanks again.