From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2007-05-25T04:00:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting a Ruby script to run on a colleague's Mac

Sharon Machlis <sharon_machlis@computerworld.com> wrote:

> unknown wrote:
> > Sharon <sharon_machlis@computerworld.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> and that works fine. I found the location of Ruby files on her machine,
> >> but
> >> 
> >> require '/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss'
> >> 
> >> gives me an error that there's no such file.
> > 
> > Why are you not saying simply require 'rss' just as in Windows? That
> > works fine on my Mac; require '/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss' does not. m.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know how it works on your Mac. I changed to the
> full path because when I tried
> 
> require 'rss'
> 
> I got an error message saying there was no file with that name. And 
> changing to the full path made that error message go away, so I was 
> guessing that perhaps the full path was needed.

I'm going to guess that the problem is that your friend has never
installed the Developer Tools (Xcode). m.

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