From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-06-25T23:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: gems gone missing?

On 6/25/07, Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just spent the evening installing gruff (all the way from step
> 1: install X11...), but now any ruby code I have that uses a gem
> can't seem to find it.
>
> For example,
>         irb(main):001:0> require 'net-ssh'
>         LoadError: no such file to load -- net-ssh
>                 from (irb):1:in `require'
>                 from (irb):1
>
> gem list lists all the gems I expect to be present, including gruff
> and net-ssh (which is one I know was working beforehand)
>
> Only thing I can think of that may have contributed to this is
> combining two .profile files into one, now ~/.profile (most of this
> is new to me). Could the one I removed (contents moved to the new
> one) have had a path to the gems, and Ruby doesn't read the new one?
>
> Any other ideas. I feel right stupid at the moment.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

Check your $RUBYOPT setting, use -rubygems argument to ruby, or add
'require "rubygems" ' to the beginning of the file.

J.