ActiveLdap: no such file to load -- ldap (MissingSourceFile)

I just installed ActiveLdap, copied the plugin into vendor/plugins and
setup a config/ldap.yml file. Starting rails gives me an error that it
can not find the ldap source file. (I installed from the gem with its
prerequisites log4r, etc.)

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require': no such file to load -- ldap (MissingSourceFile) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:innew_constants_in’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:7:inrequire_library_or_gem’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in
silence_warnings' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:5:inrequire_library_or_gem’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-activeldap-0.8.2/lib/active_ldap/adapter/ldap_ext.rb:1
… 33 levels…
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/command.rb:211:in
run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/mongrel_rails:243 from /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16:inload’
from /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:16

I have tried putting require’s in environment.rb without success. I am
using current gems of rails. I have also tried to execute this in a
non-rails program test program, but receive the same message there too.

I’m not sure which file it wants, but i see it here
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/ldap.rb

Has anyone seen this type of error before and can offer a clue on how to
resolve it?

Allen

Allen F. wrote:

I just installed ActiveLdap, copied the plugin into vendor/plugins and
setup a config/ldap.yml file. Starting rails gives me an error that it
can not find the ldap source file. (I installed from the gem with its
prerequisites log4r, etc.)

Solved! I had not installed the prerequisite ruby-ldap library. This is
not available as a gem so did not get installed as an active_ldap
dependency.

Hint: I had to install ruby-ldap from the the FreeBSD ports, and trying
to install it from source was not working (configuration problems).

Allen