Can't require rubygems on osx

Hey there!

Pretty weird, actually, but I can’t require rubygems on osx. I know
it’s installed, been using it for ages to install gems. But no way I can
“require ‘rubygems’”, not in irb, not in a sourcefile:

[~]% ruby -e “require ‘rubygems’”
-e:1:in `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError)
from -e:1
[~]%

Is this usual? If I recall correctly, gems was installed from source,
maybe I missed some rough corner, or something.

On 05.03.2009, at 21:50, Chris H. wrote:

Pretty weird, actually, but I can’t require rubygems on osx. I know
it’s installed, been using it for ages to install gems. But no way I
can
“require ‘rubygems’”, not in irb, not in a sourcefile:

[~]% ruby -e “require ‘rubygems’”
-e:1:in `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError)
from -e:1
[~]%

On Mac OSX 10.5 is ruby,irb,gem preinstalled in /usr/bin/ . I am not
sure
on OSX < 10.5.
Maybe you can try if that works: /usr/bin/ruby -e ‘require “rubygems”’

Maybe you have installed more than one ruby and irb on your computer.
If you run a zsh then you can ask with where ruby, where in the system
ruby is found.

If you installed ruby and irb from macports, then it will not find
rubygems, because you need the package rb-rubygems installed, too.

hth. regards, Sandor
Szücs

Sandor Szücs wrote:

On Mac OSX 10.5 is ruby,irb,gem preinstalled in /usr/bin/ . I am not
sure
on OSX < 10.5.
Maybe you can try if that works: /usr/bin/ruby -e ‘require “rubygems”’

Maybe you have installed more than one ruby and irb on your computer.
If you run a zsh then you can ask with where ruby, where in the system
ruby is found.

If you installed ruby and irb from macports, then it will not find
rubygems, because you need the package rb-rubygems installed, too.

hth. regards, Sandor
Sz�cs

You got me on the right track. When installing rubygems from source, I
ran “rake install”, instead of “/my/ruby setup.rb”.

Most of the times, the most weird problems, arise when one makes a
simple but crucial mistake.