# Change Gempath at Runtime **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gempath-at-runtime/158887 "2009-01-29T02:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gempath-at-runtime/158887/1 "2009-01-29T02:35:41Z")
Hello, I have a problem with my host. I have several gems installed through cPanel and even directly using the ‘gem’ command, but my Ruby scripts can not locate them because apparently the Gem path is not correctly set. Is there any way to tell Ruby where to look for gems during runtime? I tried to unpack each gem and require it separately, but the gems are not built for this, since it throw a file not found error if a gem, say Nokogiri, tries to do “require ‘nokogiri/xml’”. Any other possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Michael B. ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gempath-at-runtime/158887/2 "2009-01-29T02:39:20Z")
On Jan 28, 2009, at 17:33 PM, Michael B. wrote: > Any other possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. This information can be found in `gem help environment`: ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/change-gempath-at-runtime/158887/3 "2009-01-29T02:57:44Z")
Eric, It looks like the gems are being looked for in the right place, but are not being found. Output posted to [54320’s gists · GitHub](http://gist.github.com/54320) for the sake of readability.