From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality Date: 2008-09-14T02:13:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Mechanize for Ruby on Linux not working... "Stefano Crocco" wrote in message news:200809131035.06226.stefano.crocco@alice.it... > Alle Saturday 13 September 2008, Just Another Victim of the Ambient > Morality > ha scritto: >> The administrator for a server I'm using tried installing Mechanize >> for >> Ruby using the gem installer. Gem claims that the installation worked >> except that programs trying to use it disagree. Programs trying to use >> Mechanize get this error: >> >> in 'require': no such file to load -- mechanize (LoadError) >> >> Does anyone know what's going wrong? Maybe something hasn't been >> given >> the right permissions? Maybe gems aren't the way to install modules for >> public use? >> Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you... > > Before requiring files installed using rubygems, you need to either > require > 'rubygems' or add -rrubygems to the RUBYOPT environment variable. Not > doing > one of these things will give the error you reported. > > I hope this helps I think it has! I haven't written a program that uses these modules in earnest yet but my simple test program would suggest that it's working. I'm guessing the Windows installer must set this environment variable automatically and that's why I've never heard of this, before... Just to solidify my understanding, if this module had not been installed using rubygems, would a simple require have worked? Thanks again!