# Gems not loading on mac 10.5.6

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-not-loading-on-mac-10-5-6/186542>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 8, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-not-loading-on-mac-10-5-6/186542 "2010-04-08T16:57:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-not-loading-on-mac-10-5-6/186542/1 "2010-04-08T16:57:32Z")

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Hi,

It seems like my gems are not being loaded, i.e. when i require a gem i  
get an error “no such file to load…”

I still get this error even if i do:

$LOAD\_PATH \<\< “/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems”  
require ‘ruby-debug’

This is happening for all of the gems i have installed.

env:  
mac os x 10.5.6  
ruby 1.8.6 patch 114  
rubygems: 1.3.5

any thoughts?

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**Author:** ![parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@parvg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/parvg)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-not-loading-on-mac-10-5-6/186542/2 "2010-04-08T17:12:20Z")

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On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Parv G. wrote:

> This is happening for all of the gems i have installed.
> 
> env:  
> mac os x 10.5.6  
> ruby 1.8.6 patch 114  
> rubygems: 1.3.5

Did you load rubygems?

Have you tried using:

require ‘rubygems’

or better:

ruby -rubygems your\_script.rb

Adding /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems to you LOAD\_PATH won’t help you, as  
Rubygems manages the LOAD\_PATH itself (and in a different way).

Regards,  
Florian G.