From: Nikolai Lugovoi Date: 2010-03-18T01:58:51+09:00 Subject: Re: gems and custom_require problem for ruby(1.9.2dev)/rubygems(1.3.6) installed in $HOME Actually, that seems to be a bug, introduced in svn rev26881, that results in : ruby.c:448: rb_const_set(rb_cObject, rb_intern_const("TMP_RUBY_PREFIX"), rb_obj_freeze(rb_str_new(RUBY_LIB_PREFIX, sizeof(RUBY_LIB_PREFIX)-1))); added to ruby bugs: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2978 sorry for the noise