From: "Lee.Longmore@..." <Lee.Longmore@...>
Date: 2007-09-15T20:25:06+09:00
Subject: Unable to load fireruby gem

I get the following error when trying to load fireruby, despite having
used "sudo gem install fireruby" to install the gem and confirming
that fr_lib.so exists at the location pointed to by the path.

I have the following in my test program which reports the error (see
below):

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'fireruby'

*** Error ***

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fireruby-0.4.0-i586-linux/lib/
fr_lib.so: libfbclient.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fireruby-0.4.0-
i586-linux/lib/fr_lib.so (LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fireruby-0.4.0-i586-
linux/lib/fireruby.rb:21
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:282:in
`activate'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:281:in
`each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:281:in
`activate'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:76:in
`active_gem_with_options'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in
`require_gem'
        from test.rb:2

Any help appreciated.