# Odd IRB behavior w/ InstantRails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/odd-irb-behavior-w-instantrails/152260>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/odd-irb-behavior-w-instantrails/152260 "2008-10-31T23:14:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/odd-irb-behavior-w-instantrails/152260/1 "2008-10-31T23:14:29Z")

</div>

Hey guys,  
I was trying to play around with Win32::Service using Win32Utils  
([http://win32utils.rubyforge.org/](http://win32utils.rubyforge.org/)). I got it to work on my local machine  
(Ruby 1.8.6 without rails, Windows XP), however, I wanted to run the  
same tests on my development server which runs Windows 2003 Server and  
InstantRails v1.7 (Rails 2.1.0 and Ruby 1.8.6). I ran this command to  
install the gem on both machines - in each case I downloaded the gem and  
am installing it locally:

> gem install win32-service #this is local  
> successfully installed win32-service-0.6.1-x86-mswin32-60

using \>gem list I am able to see that win32-service (0.6.1) is installed  
on both machines.

On my local machine:  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘win32/service’  
=\> true

but doing this on the server 2003 box w/ instantrails results in:

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘win32/service’  
LoadError: no such file to load – win32/service  
from (irb):1:in `require’  
from (irb):1

My co-worker thinks this is due to instantrails not looking in the right  
place for the gems… I am still somewhat of a ruby noob, so any and all  
help is greatly appreciated!!

Thank you,

- Jeff M.