# Libxml in production **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153 "2009-08-04T05:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/1 "2009-08-04T05:19:04Z")
I’m having an issue loading libxml in production. On the same machine: Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.3) > > require ‘libxml’ > > =\> false Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) > > require ‘libxml’ > > =\> [] The difference between my development.rb and production.rb that seems to make the difference is this: #production config.cache\_classes = true #development config.cache\_classes = false Anyone know why this might be the case? ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/2 "2009-08-04T09:23:28Z")
> I’m having an issue loading libxml in production. On the same machine: Hi Vince, If the return value of require is the issue then you don’t have one ;). ‘require’ has been known to return many things. Is the libxml you’re requiring not working? kaspar ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/3 "2009-08-04T14:55:16Z")
Kaspar S. wrote: > If the return value of require is the issue then you don’t have one ;). > ‘require’ has been known to return many things. Is the libxml you’re > requiring not working? No, unfortunately not… I have a rake task that uses the vigetlabs-garb gem which seems to be failing production but not in development. The cache\_classes difference seems to be the cause though I can’t be certain it’s related to libxml. My only guess to this effect is that I can’t require garb in production either and garb requires libxml. ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/4 "2009-08-10T17:23:41Z")
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) > > true value) no matter what. Have you opened a bug for this? Thanks, Rob ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/5 "2009-08-04T22:58:23Z")
On Aug 3, 2009, at 20:19, Vince W. wrote: > I’m having an issue loading libxml in production. On the same > machine: > > Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.3) > > > > require ‘libxml’ > > > =\> false > > Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) > > > > require ‘libxml’ > > > =\> [] Rails broke require\*. It didn’t load libxml in either case. - Kernel#require returns either true or false, false when the feature was already loaded. After loading rails, Kernel#require returns an Array (a true value) no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/6 "2009-08-11T03:43:03Z")
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > > > > would it matter? > > I’ve opened bugs on semantics that rails broke and core hasn’t even batted > an eye at it. The core team has gotten better with bugs like this. Maybe they would surprise you. ---
**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/libxml-in-production/173153/7 "2009-08-10T21:14:19Z")
On Aug 10, 2009, at 07:51 , Rob S. wrote: > > Rails broke require\*. It didn’t load libxml in either case. > > > > - Kernel#require returns either true or false, false when the > > feature was > > already loaded. After loading rails, Kernel#require returns an > > Array (a > > true value) no matter what. > > Have you opened a bug for this? would it matter? I’ve opened bugs on semantics that rails broke and core hasn’t even batted an eye at it.