From: "comp.lang.zenix" <comp.lang.zenix@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T02:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby must run in c:\ruby in order to find libraries (xp sp2)

On Apr 28, 11:55 am, zenix <comp.lang.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Microsoft Windows(c) XP SP2 with the latest patches, bugfixes, etc.
> Ruby 1.8.5 and .6, both did not work
> Rubygems 0.9.2
> RUBYOPT = -rubygems
> PATH = c:\ruby\bin;c:\perl...
> Installed via One-Click-Installer (both .5 and .6)
>
> Whenever I try to run a Ruby script, the parser pauses for about 10 secs
> then returns with an error trying to locate Mongrel. I've installed it
> via rubygems which did work outside of C:\Ruby. When I went to C:\Ruby
> and typed the full path to execute it (ruby "C:\Document and
> Settings\...\Ruby\mongrel.rb") it runs ok, everything is happy. I think
> it may have to do with a missing enviorment variable. I did download and
> manually install Ruby 1.8.6 (by downloading the binaries) but Rubygems
> wouldn't install (missing libraries...zlib, etc) but I haven't taken
> that course of action yet as the One-Click is much easier ;)
>
> Anyone can help me please? I don't really use newsgroups much so a
> direct email would be better :) Thanks!
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ok, I've gone about installing Ruby from the download binaries. Same
enviorment, using Ruby 1.8.6. I am able to run scripts that only use
the standard library (eg only File, Dir, Base64, Set, etc) but
whenever I try to run a script that uses a RubyGem, it failes giving
this error:

./mongrel.rb:44: uninitialized constant Mongrel (NameError)
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `gem_original_require'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `require'
        from mongrel.rb:2

I don't know why it's happening, I have an installation on Ubuntu that
works completely fine. Line 2 is "require 'mongrel'" and line 44 is a
quick test after I commented out the other code - "puts
Mongrel::HttpServer.new.inspect"

Again, will anyone help me? I've warmed up to newsgroups a bit more so
you don't have to email me directly ;)