# Help! RubyGems is broken!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-rubygems-is-broken/163271>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-rubygems-is-broken/163271 "2009-03-18T20:36:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/explainer)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-rubygems-is-broken/163271/1 "2009-03-18T20:36:34Z")

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I have a problem with RubyGems:

ruby gt.rb  
ruby: no such file to load – ubygems (LoadError)

Here are my compiler and gem versions:

ruby --version  
ruby 1.8.7p5000 (2009-03-03 revision 22728) [x86\_64-linux] \<\>

gem --version  
1.3.1 \<\>

When I built rubygems, I saw a reference to ‘ubygems’, but it looked  
like a typo.

The source program has a "require ‘rubygems’ " line, and my profile  
file has a “RUBYOPT=rubygems” environment variable set.

I am at a loss to determine what is causing this.

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**Author:** ![explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/explainer)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-rubygems-is-broken/163271/2 "2009-03-19T05:59:11Z")

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Could you not try re-installing ruby gems??

Cheers

Richard

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**Author:** ![explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@explainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/explainer)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-rubygems-is-broken/163271/3 "2009-03-19T06:02:07Z")

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remove the rubyopt thing from your profile. I have seen that cause  
this exact error on many systems.  
Of course, restart your terminal session after changing your profile. 🙂