# Could not find RubyGem columnize

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-not-find-rubygem-columnize/139207>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 1, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-not-find-rubygem-columnize/139207 "2008-06-01T21:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-not-find-rubygem-columnize/139207/1 "2008-06-01T21:20:45Z")

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Hi! Upon updating to rails 2.1 ( sudo gem update) I now get this  
error when running tests:

/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:523:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem columnize (>= 0.1) (Gem::LoadError) from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:131:in `activate’  
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:155:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `each’  
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:154:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’  
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:509:in `require' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in `new\_constants\_in’  
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/  
active\_support/dependencies.rb:509:in `require' ... 8 levels... from ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:2:in `require’  
from ./test/unit/…/test\_helper.rb:2  
from test/unit/user\_test.rb:1:in `require’  
from test/unit/user\_test.rb:1

My environment:  
RubyGems Environment:

- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.1.1
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [universal-  
darwin9.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/  
Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
  - ruby
  - universal-darwin-9

- GEM PATHS:
  - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
  - /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/  
ruby/gems/1.8

- GEM CONFIGURATION:
  - :update\_sources =\> true
  - :verbose =\> true
  - :benchmark =\> false
  - :backtrace =\> false
  - :bulk\_threshold =\> 1000
  - :sources =\> [“[http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)”, “http://  
[gems.github.com/](http://gems.github.com/)”]

- REMOTE SOURCES:
  - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)
  - [http://gems.github.com/](http://gems.github.com/)

Anyone else seeing this one?

Thanks,George

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-not-find-rubygem-columnize/139207/2 "2008-06-01T23:28:49Z")

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You should do :

gem install columnize -y

Good luck

Reinhart  
[http://teapoci.blogspot.com](http://teapoci.blogspot.com)