From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T01:38:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another site_ruby question...

On 7/12/07, Daniel Jewett <dan@solidether.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Here's the LOAD_PATH for my desktop:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.10.0
> .
>
> Here's the LOAD_PATH for my laptop:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.9.1
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.9.1
> .
>
> Installed gem 'flacinfo-rb' and the path looks like this on both
> machines:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/flacinfo-rb-0.3/flacinfo.rb
> (although I would have expected to find it here:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/flacinfo.rb)
>
> On my laptop success with:
> irb(main):001:0> require 'flacinfo'
> => true
>
> On my desktop this:
> irb(main):001:0> require 'flacinfo'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- flacinfo
>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>         from (irb):1
>
> If I move the gem to site_ruby on my desktop, the load succeeds. My
> question is why the inconsistency?
> If the install location is incorrect why does require work on one
> machine and not the other?
>
> Here's the result of the install command on both machines:
> Successfully installed flacinfo-rb-0.3
> Installing ri documentation for flacinfo-rb-0.3...
> File not found: lib
>
> Is that last bit significant?
>
> Thanks for any info,
> Dan J.
>
>


You need to require 'rubygems' first.  This probably isn't required
because you have RUBYOPT set on your desktop, but not your laptop

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