From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T04:34:14+09:00
Subject: Re: error running .class generated by jrubyc

Guillermo.Acilu@koiaka.com wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I have a ruby script that runs perfect from the command line using jruby. 
> So I tried to compile it with jrubyc and the .class is now generated.
> 
> Then I proceed to run it with java -cp .:/pathto/jruby.jar classname and I 
> receive the following error:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" search.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load 
> -- rubygems (LoadError)
>         from search.rb:2
>         ...internal jruby stack elided...

Basically you just need to specify where JRuby is located with the 
jruby.home property. Othewise it can't find things like rubygems or Ruby 
stdlib.

java -Djruby.home=/path/to/jruby -cp .:/pathto/jruby.jar classname

- Charlie