# Problem with chronic

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-chronic/68014>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 8, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-chronic/68014 "2006-09-08T14:51:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-chronic/68014/1 "2006-09-08T14:51:43Z")

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I’ve followed the install instructions perfectly. I can only require  
‘chronice’ after i require ‘rubygems’. And then there is a problem?  
Any ideas? :

~\> irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘chronic’  
LoadError: no such file to load – chronic  
from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):003:0> require 'chronic' NameError: uninitialized constant Chronic::RepeaterSeason from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chronic-0.1.0/lib/chronic/repeaters/repeater_season_name.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chronic-0.1.0/lib/chronic.rb:22  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chronic-0.1.0/lib/chronic.rb:21  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:21:in  
`require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in`activate’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in  
`activate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:26:in`require’  
from (irb):3  
irb(main):004:0\>

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-chronic/68014/2 "2006-09-08T19:02:40Z")

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Chris R. wrote:

> I’ve followed the install instructions perfectly. I can only require  
> ‘chronice’ after i require ‘rubygems’. And then there is a problem?  
> Any ideas? :

Hi Chris,

There is a bug with the loading code that seems to pop up on Linux  
machines. I’ll be releasing a new version with bug fix later today.

Tom