# Can't get gems to work (1.9, Windows) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 2, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-gems-to-work-1-9-windows/133625 "2008-04-02T03:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-gems-to-work-1-9-windows/133625/1 "2008-04-02T03:35:40Z")
Hi, I can’t get gems to work in my 1.9 install. Can anyone help? The gem command worked (‘gem install log4r’), but when I try to include it from a script, I just get ‘no such file to load’. The gem got installed into the directory ‘c:\LAN’. Does that seem correct? If I use filemon or procmon while running my script, I notice that Ruby is _only_ searching the directories under c:\ruby-1.9\lib\ruby. I’ve tried changing RUBYOPTS, GEM\_PATH, GEM\_HOME, to no avail. Jana ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-gems-to-work-1-9-windows/133625/2 "2008-04-02T07:25:25Z")
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > If I use filemon or procmon while running my script, I notice that > Ruby is _only_ searching the directories under c:\ruby-1.9\lib\ruby. > > I’ve tried changing RUBYOPTS, GEM\_PATH, GEM\_HOME, to no avail. > > Jana Ruby Gems seems to have a broken default install-dir in the released Windows build of 1.9; other comments I’ve seen suggest that using an explicit --install-dir pointing to the right directory should solve that problem. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-gems-to-work-1-9-windows/133625/3 "2008-04-02T16:19:02Z")
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:25 AM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Ruby Gems seems to have a broken default install-dir in the released > > Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) > > library are: > > lib\ruby\site\_ruby > lib\ruby\vendor\_ruby > lib\ruby\1.9.0 > > How do I get it to search the gems directory? That’s odd. I think my Ruby 1.9.0-on-Windows-fu has been exhausted (I just remember the problem with installing gems into the wrong directory and the fix; I remember running into enough quirks that I decided to restrict myself to 1.8 until there is a 1.9 One-Click-Installer, or at least a new release of 1.9 for Windows.) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-gems-to-work-1-9-windows/133625/4 "2008-04-02T13:26:37Z")
On Apr 2, 1:24 am, Christopher D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > that problem. > Hi Christopher, thank-you. I can use --install-dir to force gem to install into the proper place, but ruby still doesn’t find the gem when I run my script: > \ruby-1.9\bin\gem.bat install --install-dir c:\ruby-1.9\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.0 log4r > Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) > Successfully installed log4r-1.0.5 > 1 gem installed > Installing ri documentation for log4r-1.0.5… > Installing RDoc documentation for log4r-1.0.5… > \ruby-1.9\bin\ruby -e “require ‘log4r’” > -e:1:in `require': no such file to load -- log4r (LoadError) from -e:1:in `’ Filemon tells me that the only places that ruby is searching for the library are: lib\ruby\site\_ruby lib\ruby\vendor\_ruby lib\ruby\1.9.0 How do I get it to search the gems directory? Jana