# Beginners' question: trouble with "gem install ClothRed"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 11, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683 "2007-04-11T14:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adriano_F)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683/1 "2007-04-11T14:47:51Z")

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Hi.

I tried to experiment with ClothRed, but as I am very new to Ruby and  
gems, I am having some trouble getting it right.

First, I am using Ruby on Cygwin. I installed gems by downloading the  
tarball and executing “setup.rb”. That seemed to worked alright.

Then I tried  
$ gem install ClothRed

and I discovered I was missing the network configuration, because I am  
behind an authenticating proxy. So I wrote .gemrc into my home  
directory. Like this:

# ~/.gemrc

gem: --http-proxy [http://username:password@squid-proxy:3128/](http://username:password@squid-proxy:3128/)

and then I did

$ gem install ClothRed  
Successfully installed ClothRed, version 0.1.0  
Installing ri documentation for ClothRed-0.1.0…  
File not found: lib

But

$ irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require “ClothRed”  
LoadError: no such file to load – ClothRed  
from (irb):1:in `require’  
from (irb):1

Any advice? What I am doing wrong?

Best regards,  
Adriano F…

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**Author:** ![Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adriano_F)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683/2 "2007-04-11T14:58:53Z")

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> Any advice? What I am doing wrong?

try to require ‘rubygems’ first.

HTH,  
Peter

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**Author:** ![Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adriano_F)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683/3 "2007-04-11T15:03:55Z")

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Adriano F. wrote:

> ```
> from (irb):1:in `require'
> from (irb):1
> 
> ```
> 
> Any advice? What I am doing wrong?

The problem is with the gem. Gonna fix it now.

Oh, and ClothRed won’t be too useful for you, currently 😉

–  
Phillip “CynicalRyan” Gawlowski  
[http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/](http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/)

Rule of Open-Source Programming #37:

Duplicate effort is inevitable. Live with it.

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**Author:** ![Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Adriano\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Adriano_F)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683/4 "2007-04-11T15:11:57Z")

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On 4/11/07, Phillip G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > LoadError: no such file to load – ClothRed  
> > from (irb):1:in `require’  
> > from (irb):1
> > 
> > Any advice? What I am doing wrong?

On 4/11/07, Peter S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Any advice? What I am doing wrong?
> 
> try to require ‘rubygems’ first.

I tried after thinking for a while.

$ irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\> require ‘clothred’  
LoadError: no such file to load – clothred  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’  
from (irb):2

> The problem is with the gem. Gonna fix it now.

Ok. Thanks.

> Oh, and ClothRed won’t be too useful for you, currently 😉

That’s fine. I like the idea of converting HTML to Textile and would  
like to see this library growing up.

Cheers,  
Adriano.

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginners-question-trouble-with-gem-install-clothred/91683/5 "2007-04-11T15:41:00Z")

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Adriano F. wrote:

> > Oh, and ClothRed won’t be too useful for you, currently 😉
> 
> That’s fine. I like the idea of converting HTML to Textile and would  
> like to see this library growing up.

I’d appreciate any feedback, really.

A new .gem has been uploaded to rubyforge.

–  
Phillip “CynicalRyan” Gawlowski  
[http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/](http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/)

Rule of Open-Source Programming #1:

Don’t whine unless you are going to implement it yourself.