From: Pierre-Charles David <pcdavid@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T19:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: "require 'sqlite3'" gives "no such file to load -- sqlite3 (LoadError)"

2007/4/9, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@gmail.com>:
> hi, folks, I have been hacking away at this thing for a number of
> hours now, and have found no solution. I have absolutely no idea what
> happened here, but I do know for a fact that this has always been
> working all along. I have ruby (from source), sqlite (from source),
> gems, and the sqlite3-ruby gem installed, but try as I might, i keep
> hitting into this error. What's wrong?
>
> ==========
>
> # ruby -e "require 'sqlite3'"
> -e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- sqlite3 (LoadError)

If you installed sqlite3 as a gem, you need to "require 'rubygems'"
first as gems have their own search path/logic:

% ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'sqlite3'"

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