From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T03:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: bluecloth 2.0.5 installation error on Windows

On Sep 7, 2:50 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 1:37 pm, Michael Granger <g...@faeriemud.org> wrote:
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> > On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:23 AM, Li Cheng wrote:
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> > > Is there another way to getblueclothon to Windows without gem or C
> > > compiler?
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> > Sorry, I do actually have build targets for binary Windows-compatible  
> > gems, but I've been neglecting to build them. I've built one for the  
> > 2.0.5 release and put it on RubyForge, and I'll be hooking the win32  
> > build into my release tasks so they'll be distributed for future  
> > releases, too.
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> > You can also fetch the binary gem from:
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> >    http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-2.0.5-x86-mingw32.gem
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> > --
> > Michael Granger <g...@FaerieMUD.org>
> > Rubymage, Architect, Believer
> > The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm trying to use the bluecloth-2.0.5-x86-mingw32.gem gem on Windows
> XP, and the install went beautifully, but I get errors on use.  Using
> this test:
> * * * *
> require 'bluecloth'
> BlueCloth.new('*testing*').to_html
> * * * *
>
> I get the following:
> * * * *
> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file
>  to load -- bluecloth_ext (LoadError)
>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
> 31:in `require'
>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bluecloth-2.0.5-x86-
> mingw32/lib/bluecloth.rb:156
>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
> 36:in `gem_original_require'
>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
> 36:in `require'
>         from C:/Ruby/temp.rb:1
> * * * *
>
> Am I missing a dependency somewhere? Apologies if this is an obvious
> issue, I'm not a Ruby person, I'm just trying to help the Prototype
> project with its documentation, and naturally they're trying to use
> BlueCloth2 for markdown stuff.
>

*ANY* library installed with RubyGems must require rubygems.

require 'rubygems'
require 'bluecloth'
BlueCloth.new('*testing*').to_html

Unless, of course, you're requiring it inside Rails, which already
requires rubygems and you should be indicating the gem dependency
inside environment.rb

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena