From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T03:58:12+09:00
Subject: Re: importing GEM libraries .... newby questions

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:34:09AM +0900, Brad Sherard wrote:
> > You need to have RubyGems loaded before you require any libraries that
> > were installed using RubyGems. You can do this:
> > 
> > export RUBYOPT=rubygems
> > 
> > or in every script that requires a gem, require 'rubygems' before
> > requiring any gem.
> 
> I have the exact problem cugf described right down to using the same gem 
> (selenium). I tried your first suggestion but that returned with a 
> compile time error.

There is no "compile time" in Ruby.

Post the snippet of code you were trying to run, and the exact error
message.

> C:\Documents and Settings\user>gem contents selenium
> 
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/bin/selenium
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/button.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/directory_listing_page.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/link.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/locator.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/openqa
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/selenium_server.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/server_manager.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/text_field.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/version
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/openqa/README
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/openqa/selenium-server.jar.txt
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/lib/selenium/openqa/selenium.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium/download_page.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium/home_page.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium/menu.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium/tc_basic_operation.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/spec/selenium/tc_selenium_server.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.0.1/README
> 
> And the (very unhelpful) example selenium provides has the following 
> requires:
> 
> require 'spec'
> $:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..')
> require 'lib/selenium'

As suggested by earlier posters, try:

require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium'

and if it doesn't work, post the entire error message you see.

Brian.