Using gems problem -- LoadError

Ruby
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Hello all,
I am a newbie with ruby and gems and I have this frustrating problem not
being
able to load any gem I install. I am running Ubuntu 5.10 and I have just
installed ruby1.8 deb (1.8.4) and have compiled rubygems-0.8.11 without
any
problem. I am able to load rubygems (require ‘rubygems’) and I setup
RUBYOPT
var as advised in gems doc (export RUBYOPT=rubygems). However, when I
try to
load a gem ($ruby1.8 -e "require ‘some_gem’ ") I always get an error
(This is
for xml-simple gem:

/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require__': no such file to load -- xml-simple (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
from -e:1

I checked and it seems that rubygems creates a dir-y for every installed
gem
in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/, but this dir-y is not in the load path:
$ ruby1.8 -e “p $:”
["/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8",
“/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,
“/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “/usr/local/lib/site_ruby”,
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8”, “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “.”]

… in the other hand rubygems has been installed
in /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8
gemconfigure.rb
i486-linux
rubygems
rubygems.rb
ubygems.rb

So at this point I am confused … Could someone help me understand what
I am
missing here or point me to a doc or howto

Cheers
Vlad

2

On 4/12/06, Vladsialv T. [email protected] wrote:

Hello all,
I am a newbie with ruby and gems and I have this frustrating problem not being
able to load any gem I install. I am running Ubuntu 5.10 and I have just
installed ruby1.8 deb (1.8.4) and have compiled rubygems-0.8.11 without any
problem. I am able to load rubygems (require ‘rubygems’) and I setup RUBYOPT
var as advised in gems doc (export RUBYOPT=rubygems). However, when I try to
load a gem ($ruby1.8 -e "require ‘some_gem’ ") I always get an error (This is
for xml-simple gem:

Try “require ‘xml/simple’”. One has to require the libraries that are
represented in the gem, not the gem itself.

With some gems, you can autorequire the code by requiring_gem-ing the
gem, but this functionality may ultimately go away and it is dependent
on each gem.

The xml-simple gem documentation should indicate what you must include.

-austin

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Thank you Austin … that was it… I was using wrong libraries names

Cheers
Vlad