Mechanize for Ruby on Linux not working

Ruby
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The administrator for a server I’m using tried installing Mechanize for
Ruby using the gem installer. Gem claims that the installation worked
except that programs trying to use it disagree. Programs trying to use
Mechanize get this error:

in ‘require’: no such file to load – mechanize (LoadError)

Does anyone know what's going wrong?  Maybe something hasn't been

given
the right permissions? Maybe gems aren’t the way to install modules for
public use?
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you…

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Alle Saturday 13 September 2008, Just Another Victim of the Ambient
Morality
ha scritto:

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you...

Before requiring files installed using rubygems, you need to either
require
‘rubygems’ or add -rrubygems to the RUBYOPT environment variable. Not
doing
one of these things will give the error you reported.

I hope this helps

Stefano

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“Stefano C.” [email protected] wrote in message
news:[email protected]…

one of these things will give the error you reported.

I hope this helps

I think it has!  I haven't written a program that uses these modules

in
earnest yet but my simple test program would suggest that it’s working.
I’m
guessing the Windows installer must set this environment variable
automatically and that’s why I’ve never heard of this, before…
Just to solidify my understanding, if this module had not been
installed
using rubygems, would a simple require have worked?
Thanks again!

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On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient
Morality [email protected] wrote:

Mechanize get this error:
require
Just to solidify my understanding, if this module had not been installed
using rubygems, would a simple require have worked?
Thanks again!

yes.

Cameron