# Gem fails to load?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fails-to-load/175875>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 22, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fails-to-load/175875 "2009-09-22T00:36:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fails-to-load/175875/1 "2009-09-22T00:36:03Z")

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Anybody have an idea what’s going on here?

$ gem install rogerdpack-live\_console  
WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and  
/usr/local/bin aren’t both writable.  
Successfully installed rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
1 gem installed  
$ irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\> require ‘live\_console’  
LoadError: no such file to load – live\_console  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in  
`gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in`require’  
from (irb):2

installing the “normal” (non githubbed) version of live\_console gem and  
running “require live\_console” works fine, however.

Thanks.  
-r

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fails-to-load/175875/2 "2009-09-22T00:47:59Z")

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On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Roger P. wrote:

> irb(main):002:0\> require ‘live\_console’  
> and  
> running “require live\_console” works fine, however.
> 
> Thanks.  
> -r

[apatterson@hartammoeller git]$ gem fetch rogerdpack-live\_console -s  
[http://gems.github.com/](http://gems.github.com/)  
Downloaded rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
[apatterson@hartammoeller git]$ gem unpack rogerdpack-  
live\_console-0.2.2.3.gem  
Unpacked gem: ‘/Users/apatterson/git/rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3’  
[apatterson@hartammoeller git]$ tree rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
`-- bin `– udscat

1 directory, 1 file  
[apatterson@hartammoeller git]$

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Aaron P.  
[http://tenderlovemaking.com](http://tenderlovemaking.com)

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-fails-to-load/175875/3 "2009-09-22T01:52:21Z")

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> [apatterson@hartammoeller git]$ tree rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
> rogerdpack-live\_console-0.2.2.3  
> `-- bin`– udscat

That would explain it. Guess I shouldn’t rely on github’s building  
system to sanity check my gems any more 🙂  
-r