From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T21:21:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I know what to require in my ruby script?


On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Omar Campos wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>  How do I know what 'require' to include after installing a ruby gem?
> The reason I ask is because I just installed the pdf-writer gem, but
> none of these work:
>
> require 'pdf-writer'
> require 'pdf'
> require 'pdfwriter'
>
>  After installing a ruby gem, how do I know what string to put in my
> require statement?  thanks for any info.

Read the documentation. While it is good practice that you just have
to require a file with the same name of the gem, this is not enforced.
In the case of pdf::writer, it is:

   require 'pdf/writer'

This follows another popular convention, where modules are folders and
nested classes are files. All this can be found in the Pdf::Writer
manual, to be found at:

   http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/manual/index.html

Regards,
Florian Gilcher