From: Joshua Schairbaum <mailing-lists@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T22:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: linux -- require question

Jay,

I believe that you first need to require 'rubygems' in IRB before you  
can require any single gem.

Josh

On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Jay Damask wrote:

> I'm a newbie. I've locally installed ruby and rubygems on my linux box
> (call it /home/). I've successfully installs rails and rake via gem
> install, however from irb I get:
> irb(main):002:0> require 'rails'
> LoadError: No such file to load -- rails
>         from (irb):2:in `require'
>         from (irb):2
>
> but for something simple it succeeds:
> irb(main):004:0> require 'date'
> => true
>
> $gem list
> does show me all the packages that I've installed, and
>
> $gem env
> correctly shows where the gems are located. I haven't explicitly  
> set any
> environment variables...
>
> What do I need to do so that require finds the gems?
>
> Thanks.
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