From: Dennis Schmidt <metzeltiger@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T23:39:02+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with "require 'some-installed-gem'"

On 15 Jan., 15:21, badboy <bad...@heartofgold.co.cc> wrote:
> Dennis Schmidt schrieb:
>
> > Hi everybody,
>
> > I've got a strange problem and hope this is the right place for it.
> > I've recently installed a new gem for ruby, called 'rsruby' (but it
> > shouldn't matter I think which one it is).
>
> > The problem is the following:
>
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'rsruby'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- rsruby
> >    from (irb):1:in `require'
> >    from (irb):1
>
> > I just can't include it. BUT when I move directly into the gem's
> > folder, it works just fine. In other words, when I open the ruby shell
> > from within /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rsruby-0.5.1/lib the output is
>
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'rsruby'
> > => true
>
> > as it should and I can use the gem without any problems.
> > Any ideas where this could come from? I hope this is really a ruby
> > issue and not a server (debian) issue.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> > Dennis Schmidt
>
> you need to: require 'rubygems'

thanks a lot, that works :-)