From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-06-06T15:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: cannot load installed gems

On Jun 5, 2007, at 18:53, ZHANG Yin wrote:

> Well, I've installed hpricot using gem, and it works well in windows.
> But under my fedora 7, although gem told me that hpricot has been
> successfully installed(I did install gcc and make so that gem can
> compile the source code), I still can't load it into my program. Under
> irb, it just told me that 'no such file to load hpricot' when I type
> "require 'hpricot'".
>
> I've also installed rails using gem under Linux. If I type 'rails -v'
> directly into the terminal, it works and told me it's 'rails  
> 1.2.3', but
> "require 'rails'"(I don't know whether it'll work. Just to have a try)
> in irb won't work too, just like hpricot.
>
> "ri hpricot" won't work too.

ri Hpricot

> I can find hpricot and rails under '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems'.  
> But it
> seems the ruby won't load libs in it.

What does `gem env` say?

What does `gem list` say?