# Gems LoadError in Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 23, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618 "2009-12-23T17:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/1 "2009-12-23T17:19:37Z")
Hello, I’m new to Ruby and I wanna run a test a simple Gem in the latest Ubuntu. I’ve downloaded Ruby 1.9.1 and RubyGems, and the Gem I wanna test is NFC - which appears installed as a Local Gem after I did $ sudo gem install nfc… The problem happens when I try to run my test code: require ‘nfc’ loop do NFC.instance.find do |tag| p tag end end Which errors with: `require’: no such file to load – nfc (LoadError) After reading about Gems for a while, I found out that I also need to add require ‘rubygems’ to the beginning of the code, but that also gives me an error: `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError) What am I doing wrong? 😕 Any help will be great. ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/2 "2009-12-23T19:33:49Z")
> `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError) > > What am I doing wrong? 😕 Any help will be great. Did you install rubygems into the same ruby that you are using to run that file? you could do a $ gem which nfc to see if the file is there, too. You could also try installing the rubygem _without_ sudo so that it is installed to a different location that gems might like more [?] -r ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/3 "2009-12-24T03:55:58Z")
Roger P. wrote: > Did you install rubygems into the same ruby that you are using to run > that file? How do I know that? I did: 1. $ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full 2. $ sudo apt-get install rubygems1.9.1 > you could do a > $ gem which nfc > > to see if the file is there, too. that instruction resulted in: (checking gem nfc-2.0.1 for nfc) /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nfc-2.0.1/lib/nfc.rb ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/4 "2009-12-25T16:39:37Z")
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 01:20:07AM +0900, Augusto E. wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new to Ruby and I wanna run a test a simple Gem in the latest > Ubuntu. I’ve downloaded Ruby 1.9.1 and RubyGems, and the Gem I wanna > test is NFC - which appears installed as a Local Gem after I did $ sudo > gem install nfc… What OS are you running on? Also, can you provide the output of: ruby -v gem -v Also the output of ‘gem list nfc’ might be helpful. > Which errors with: > `require’: no such file to load – nfc (LoadError) > > After reading about Gems for a while, I found out that I also need to > add > require ‘rubygems’ to the beginning of the code, but that also gives me > an error: > > `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError) > > What am I doing wrong? 😕 Any help will be great. Not sure. This is strange. You _should_ be requiring rubygems at the top of your program. But you _shouldn’t_ be getting that error. 🙂 Hopefully the info you provide us with the output of the above commands will help us track this down! ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/5 "2009-12-24T13:29:03Z")
Got it working. I was using Ubuntu and I had version 1.8 installed already. I was installing the gems in ruby1.8 and using ruby1.9 ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/6 "2010-08-20T17:15:32Z")
Hi, i know that the post is old, but i’m having the same problem, i am running Ubuntu 10.04 and installed ruby1.9.1-full rubygems1.9.1 when requiring active record for example: require ‘rubygems’ require ‘active\_record’ and run the file i get error: `require’: no such file to load – active\_record (LoadError) I dont have any other versions of ruby, just 1.9.1, any ideas? Thanks in advanced Jaime > On Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:20 AM Augusto E. wrote: > add > require ‘rubygems’ to the beginning of the code, but that also gives me > an error: > > `require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError) > > ## What am I doing wrong? 😕 Any help will be great. > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > On Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:03 PM Aaron P. wrote: > > Hopefully the info you provide us with the output of the above commands > > will help us track this down! > > > > – > > Aaron P. > > [http://tenderlovemaking.com/](http://tenderlovemaking.com/) > > > On Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:35 PM Roger P. wrote: > > > ## -r > > > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > > On Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:56 PM Augusto E. wrote: > > > > (checking gem nfc-2.0.1 for nfc) > > > > /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nfc-2.0.1/lib/nfc.rb > > > > > > > > – > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > > > On Thursday, December 24, 2009 7:29 AM Augusto E. wrote: > > > > > ## Got it working. I was using Ubuntu and I had version 1.8 installed already. I was installing the gems in ruby1.8 and using ruby1.9 > > > > > > > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/7 "2010-08-20T17:34:51Z")
perhaps, if you try with export GEM\_HOME=“path\_gems” ? 2010/8/20 Jaime G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/8 "2010-08-20T17:27:49Z")
Jaime G. wrote: > Hi, i know that the post is old, but i’m having the same problem, i am > running Ubuntu 10.04 and installed > > ruby1.9.1-full > rubygems1.9.1 > > when requiring active record for example: > > require ‘rubygems’ > require ‘active\_record’ Recommend trying 1.9.2 or trying it in irb like $ ruby --disable-gems -S irb > > require ‘rubygems’ > > require ‘active\_record’ ---
**Author:** ![rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rorsch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorsch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-loaderror-in-linux/180618/9 "2010-09-07T14:58:47Z")
Roger P. wrote: > Jaime G. wrote: > > > Hi, i know that the post is old, but i’m having the same problem, i am > > running Ubuntu 10.04 and installed > > > > ruby1.9.1-full > > rubygems1.9.1 > > > > when requiring active record for example: > > > > require ‘rubygems’ > > require ‘active\_record’ > > Recommend trying 1.9.2 or trying it in irb like > $ ruby --disable-gems -S irb > > > > require ‘rubygems’ > > > require ‘active\_record’ Here’s what happens on my Ubuntu 10.04 box. I may be standing on my air hose by attempting to have both 1.8.? installed alongside 1.9.1. I would like to whack both and go to 1.9.2 but I’m afraid of making things worse instead of better. [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ ruby1.9.1 sinatra1.rb sinatra1.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load -- sinatra (LoadError) from sinatra1.rb:2:in`’ [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ gem1.9.1 which sinatra /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.0/lib/sinatra.rb [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ uname -a Linux lucid1 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:24:04 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ ruby1.9.1 -v ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i486-linux] [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ gem1.9.1 -v 1.3.7 [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ ruby1.9.1 --disable-gems -S irb irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’ =\> true irb(main):002:0\> require ‘sinatra’ =\> true irb(main):004:0\> exit [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ export GEM\_HOME=“path\_gems” [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ ruby1.9.1 sinatra1.rb sinatra1.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load -- sinatra (LoadError) from sinatra1.rb:2:in`’ [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ export GEM\_HOME="/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems" [~/sinatra\_etudes]$ ruby1.9.1 sinatra1.rb sinatra1.rb:2:in `require': no such file to load -- sinatra (LoadError) from sinatra1.rb:2:in`’ So it works in irb but not from the command line.