From: bbiker <renard@...>
Date: 2007-05-14T05:51:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help

On May 11, 11:19 pm, Dan Zwell <dzw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> In the future you'll have better luck if you title your posts descriptively.
>
> Ruby is looking for the 'parseexcel' include file and can't find it. Do
> "locate parseexcel.rb" to see whether it is installed at all. If not, do
> "gem install parseexcel" to install the gem. If you do locate the file,
> it means it's in the wrong directory and you need to tell ruby where to
> look for libraries:
>
> $ ruby -I /my/include/dir/ruby/gems/1.8/gems     test.rb
>
> Good luck,
> Dan
>
>
>
> Aaron wrote:
> > I got this error in Ubuntu when i wanted to use parseexcel .
> > Here is the code :
> >  require 'parseexcel'
>
> >  workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.parse("12.xls")
> >  worksheet = workbook.worksheet(0)
> >  ......
>
> > The full error message:"test.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load
> > -- parseexcel (LoadError)        from test.rb:1 "
>
> > Really wanna your help, thanks!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

did you install parseexcel manually using the tarball or via
automatically via gem install parseexcel?