From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T10:41:31+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB require issues

On 7/5/07, Guest <Guest@bugmenot.com> wrote:
> is there a reason why saying require 'net/http' would return false?
>
> i've been trying to figure out what's wrong with my installation, but i
> see no reason why it refuses to load that one library, it works for
> everything else i can think of...
>
> thanks

Usually, this is because it is already loaded ...

irb(main):001:0> $LOADED_FEATURES.grep /net/
=> ["net/protocol.rb", "net/http.rb"]
irb(main):002:0> require 'net/http'  #already loaded, so should return false
=> false

hth,
Todd