From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2007-01-25T17:09:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and library paths

Dale schrieb:
> I'm (brand) new to Ruby, so treat my questions in that light. On trying 
> to install Beast (web forum software on Rails) I am required to test 
> that requiring fcgi, or fcgi.so returns true from within irb.
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require fcgi.so
> NameError: undefined local variable or method `fcgi' for main:Object
>         from (irb):1

Hi Dale, welcome to Ruby!

You have to put quotes around fcgi, like

   require "fcgi"

or

   require "fcgi.so"

Otherwise Ruby tries to find a local variable or a method called fcgi, 
and then you get the NameError you've shown.

Regards,
Pit