# No such file to load -- rexml\_helper (LoadError)

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 13, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-rexml-helper-loaderror/175409 "2009-09-13T05:46:06Z")\
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Hi,

I am facing the above error. I am having Ubuntu 9.04 system with Ruby  
1.8 running. Please advice. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,  
Active Noob

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Hi,

Am Sonntag, 13. Sep 2009, 12:46:09 +0900 schrieb Active V.:

> I am facing the above error.

More pecise, please.

Bertram

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**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-rexml-helper-loaderror/175409/3 "2009-09-13T09:03:20Z")

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On Sep 12, 2009, at 20:46 , Active V. wrote:

> I am facing the above error. I am having Ubuntu 9.04 system with Ruby  
> 1.8 running. Please advice. Thanks in advance.

There is no rexml\_helper in the standard ruby distribution… maybe  
you are missing a dependency (some 3rd party code that provides  
rexml\_helper)?

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**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-rexml-helper-loaderror/175409/4 "2009-09-13T10:27:33Z")

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Hmm… No wonder when I tried to do a google search, nothing much seems  
to appear… Thanks!

require ‘gtk2’  
require ‘open-uri’  
require ‘rexml/document’  
require ‘rexml\_helper’  
include REXML

Above is part of my code. Not sure if it can helps the experts here to  
guide me on what dependency I could have missed out. Thanks for advance!

Ryan D. wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2009, at 20:46 , Active V. wrote:
> 
> > I am facing the above error. I am having Ubuntu 9.04 system with Ruby  
> > 1.8 running. Please advice. Thanks in advance.
> 
> There is no rexml\_helper in the standard ruby distribution… maybe  
> you are missing a dependency (some 3rd party code that provides  
> rexml\_helper)?

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**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-rexml-helper-loaderror/175409/5 "2009-09-13T17:49:26Z")

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Active V. wrote:

> Hmm… No wonder when I tried to do a google search, nothing much seems  
> to appear… Thanks!
> 
> require ‘gtk2’  
> require ‘open-uri’  
> require ‘rexml/document’  
> require ‘rexml\_helper’  
> include REXML
> 
> Above is part of my code. Not sure if it can helps the experts here to  
> guide me on what dependency I could have missed out. Thanks for advance!

require ‘porsche’

puts ‘hello’

–output:–  
r1test.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load – porsche (LoadError)  
from r1test.rb:1