From: Nick Sieger <nicksieger@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T02:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: jirb: require java => false ????

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM, PB0711 <hpbenton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  Ok I'm new to the ruby world and a complete newbie  in jruby/java so
>  I'm probably being dump but what is wrong here? Why isn't require
>  'java' working and 2nd (probably be fixed I guess when require java
>  works) why is require_gem an undefined method??
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Paul
>
>  Code:
>  /local/Ruby> echo $JAVA_HOME
>  /local/jdk1.6.0_05
>  :/local/Ruby> echo $JRUBY_HOME
>  /local/Ruby/Jruby/jruby-1.1RC3/
>
>  :/local/Ruby> jirb --version
>  irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
>  irb(main):001:0> require 'java'
>  => false
>  irb(main):002:0> include Java
>  => Object
>  require 'rubygems'
>  => true
>
>  require_gem 'ActiveRecord-JDBC'
>  NoMethodError: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object
>         from (irb):7:in `signal_status'

"require_gem" is an obsolete method in Rubygems, the new one is just
"gem". Also, since you're using RC3, you probably want to use
activerecord-jdbc-adapter 0.8 instead...

/Nick