From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T02:14:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another site_ruby question...

On 7/12/07, Daniel Jewett <dan@solidether.net> wrote:
> In article
> <86987bdf0707120938r7121cb59o3404386a44758cf8@mail.gmail.com>, Chris
> Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Thanks Chris,
> I did try that...
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> require 'flacinfo'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- flacinfo
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>         from (irb):2
>
> This isn't necessarily a show stopper, because of course I can just
> move the library, but I'm trying to understand the process.
>
> Dan
>
>

How about:
require 'rubygems'
require 'flacinfo-rb'

?


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