From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-09-22T20:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't load gem

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jule Nissen <tschellhorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jule Nissen wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've run into some trouble while updating my ruby-version on ubuntu.
>> I installed ruby1.9.1 linked /usr/bin/ruby to ruby1.9.1
>> installed rubygems1.3.7 with ruby1.9.1.
> when I run
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'ri_cal'
>
> I get this error:
>
> LoadError: no such file to load -- ri_cal
>  from (irb):1:in `require'
>  from (irb):1
>  from /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
> irb(main):002:0>
>
> with require gems its like this:
>
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> require 'ri_cal'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- ri_cal
>  from (irb):2:in `require'
>  from (irb):2
>  from /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
> irb(main):003:0>
>
>
>
>>
>> My gem env output is this:
>>
>> RubyGems Environment:
>>   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
>>   - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 378) [i486-linux]
>>   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
>>   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1
>>   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
>>   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
>>     - ruby
>>     - x86-linux
>>   - GEM PATHS:
>>      - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
>>      - /home/jule/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
>>   - GEM CONFIGURATION:
>>      - :update_sources => true
>>      - :verbose => true
>>      - :benchmark => false
>>      - :backtrace => false
>>      - :bulk_threshold => 1000
>>   - REMOTE SOURCES:
>>      - http://rubygems.org/
>>
>> When I run
>>
>>> ruby --disable-gems -S irb
>>> require 'rubygems'
>>> require 'ri_cal'
>>
>> everything works fine!
>>
>> Does ruby load a wrong gem version by default?
>> How is it possible to configure this?
>> Is it an ruby or an ubuntu issue?
>>
>> Really don't know how to find a solution.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> landge
>>
>> PS: I haven't set any environment variables
>

Have you installed the ri_cal gem under 1.9?

there are separate gem directories for 1.8  and 1.9.

Probably not the problem but Ruby 1.9.1 is getting rather old, but I
guess that's the latest debian/ubuntu packaged version of Ruby.

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