# No such file to load -- linguistics.rb

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-linguistics-rb/183343>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 12, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-linguistics-rb/183343 "2010-02-12T06:10:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saboor)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-linguistics-rb/183343/1 "2010-02-12T06:10:03Z")

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hi  
i want to convert no to words so using linguistics.rb;  
while using it linguistics.rb  
i am receiving an error

no such file to load – linguistics.rb

i have installed gem for it  
linguistics \<1.0.8\>

code=\>  
require ‘linguistics.rb’  
Linguistics::use( :en )

any fix?

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**Author:** ![saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saboor)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-linguistics-rb/183343/2 "2010-02-12T18:38:23Z")

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On Feb 12, 12:08 am, Saboor [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> code=\>  
> require ‘linguistics.rb’

Require statements do not use the .rb extension - try that.

–Matt J.

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**Author:** ![saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@saboor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saboor)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-linguistics-rb/183343/3 "2010-02-13T00:19:00Z")

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Saboor [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> code=\>  
> require ‘linguistics.rb’  
> Linguistics::use( :en )
> 
> any fix?

Unless you are using Ruby 1.9 you need to require ‘rubygems’ in order  
to load gems.

You can do this either in the code itself or via a command line argument  
to ruby

$ ruby -e’require “rubygems”;p require “linguistics.rb”’  
-e:1:in `require’: no such file to load – linguistics.rb (LoadError)  
from -e:1

$ruby -rubygems -e’p require “linguistics.rb”’  
true

$ruby -e’require “rubygems”;p require “linguistics.rb”’  
true

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Rick DeNatale

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