Gem requires not working

I feel stupid about this, but I just did a fresh install of 1.8.5 from
MacPorts, installed a fresh rubygems, installed all my gems, and simple
code like this fails:

require ‘redcloth’

Error message:

lacosta:~/nitro/tracker sxross$ ruby bug.rb
bug.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load – redcloth (LoadError)

The odd thing is that any requires inside a Rails app seem to find the
gems just fine. I assume that’s because Rails munges the load paths.

Any help is appreciated.

Steve R. wrote:

The odd thing is that any requires inside a Rails app seem to find the
gems just fine. I assume that’s because Rails munges the load paths.
Actually it’s because of config/boot.rb in your Rails app. Specifically:
require ‘rubygems’

If your code was working before, and didn’t need this, then it’s
possible that you had had RUBYOPT set.

Devin

Devin M. wrote:

Steve R. wrote:

The odd thing is that any requires inside a Rails app seem to find the
gems just fine. I assume that’s because Rails munges the load paths.
Actually it’s because of config/boot.rb in your Rails app. Specifically:
require ‘rubygems’

If your code was working before, and didn’t need this, then it’s
possible that you had had RUBYOPT set.

Devin

You’re right, it’s the explicit:

require ‘rubygems’

Shouldn’t this be implicit? Or am I misremembering…

Thanks

Steve R. wrote:

Devin M. wrote:

Steve R. wrote:

The odd thing is that any requires inside a Rails app seem to find the
gems just fine. I assume that’s because Rails munges the load paths.
Actually it’s because of config/boot.rb in your Rails app. Specifically:
require ‘rubygems’

If your code was working before, and didn’t need this, then it’s
possible that you had had RUBYOPT set.

Devin

You’re right, it’s the explicit:

require ‘rubygems’

Shouldn’t this be implicit? Or am I misremembering…

Thanks

It’s not a standard part of Ruby, it’s an external library, so it should
remain explicit. If you’re using it on your system you most likely do
want to set RUBYOPT="-r rubygems".

On Dec 2, 2006, at 15:43 , Steve R. wrote:

possible that you had had RUBYOPT set.

Devin

You’re right, it’s the explicit:

require ‘rubygems’

Shouldn’t this be implicit? Or am I misremembering…

You are misremembering.

Some people set RUBYOPT=-rubygems (or is it RUBY_OPT?)


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