# MissingSourceFile: no such file to load -- digest/shal

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missingsourcefile-no-such-file-to-load-digest-shal/137547>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missingsourcefile-no-such-file-to-load-digest-shal/137547 "2008-05-14T03:41:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/df-sean)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missingsourcefile-no-such-file-to-load-digest-shal/137547/1 "2008-05-14T03:41:54Z")

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I attempted to bring up digest/shal in the console but it seems to not  
be in there. After - gem update I still do not have this file.

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**Author:** ![df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/df-sean)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missingsourcefile-no-such-file-to-load-digest-shal/137547/2 "2008-05-14T09:47:37Z")

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On 14 May 2008, at 03:41, Sean S. wrote:

> I attempted to bring up digest/shal in the console but it seems to not  
> be in there. After - gem update I still do not have this file.

Lol, it’s SHA1 and not SHAL ([SHA-1 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA1)), so  
digest/sha1 will work better.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@df-sean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/df-sean)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/missingsourcefile-no-such-file-to-load-digest-shal/137547/3 "2008-05-14T10:10:45Z")

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> > I attempted to bring up digest/shal in the console but it seems to  
> > not  
> > be in there. After - gem update I still do not have this file.
> 
> Lol, it’s SHA1 and not SHAL ([SHA-1 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA1)), so  
> digest/sha1 will work better.

Hehehe… ProFont [1] is a great typography for coding, that tries to  
avoid that kind of mistakes 🙂

[1] [http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/index.html](http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/index.html)

Carlos P.