# Problem finding/using installed gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-finding-using-installed-gems/103529>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 7, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-finding-using-installed-gems/103529 "2007-05-07T16:09:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thogra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Thogra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thogra)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-finding-using-installed-gems/103529/1 "2007-05-07T16:09:13Z")

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Hi all,

I installed a gem but it doesn’t work properly (can’t call methods on  
this), though object instantiation seemed to work:  
flickr = Flickr.new gives a valid object.

To check what happens I have inserted some code in the initializer of  
this class (Flickr) in the lib. But the initializer is not being  
executed. I even inserted a ‘division by zero’ but no error comes up.

So how can it be that I can instantiate an object but it’s initialize  
is not being called ?

Thanks