From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-11-30T23:38:34+09:00
Subject: Re: 'require' is not recognised

On 11/30/2010 8:36 AM, Tara Keane wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't specific before
> I'm in irb and as soon as I type the first line of code i.e. require 
> benchmark I get the error 'undefined local variable or method 
> 'benchmark' for main:Object
> 
> Then I tried saving all the code in a text file and running it from cmd 
> prompt with Ruby test.rb and I got the same error.

You need to put quotes around benchmark in your require statement.  The
require method takes a string:

require "benchmark"

-Jeremy