# Problem with gem or ruby 1.8.5 or fxruby or maybe 64bit?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 4, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-or-ruby-1-8-5-or-fxruby-or-maybe-64bit/67417 "2006-09-04T14:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marinho_T)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-or-ruby-1-8-5-or-fxruby-or-maybe-64bit/67417/1 "2006-09-04T14:43:27Z")

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Hi there.

Well i have a little problem. I just recently installed ruby 1.8.5 and  
rubygems 0.9 and Fox 1.6.4 and fxruby 1.6.  
For fxruby i installed the gem and that seems to work. As you can see  
gemm list -local shows fxruby. But for some reason it wouldn´t  
be found. if i use irb neither require ‘fox16’ nor require ‘rubygems’  
require\_gem ‘fxruby’ work.  
Can somebody help me ?

Some more information ´bout my system.

I use linux slackware 10.2 and Suse 10.0 64 bit. It doesn´t work on both  
systems.

Thanks

Marinho

# gem list --local

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

fxruby (1.6.0)  
FXRuby is the Ruby binding to the FOX GUI toolkit.

sources (0.0.1)  
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation  
root@wintermute:~# irb  
irb(main):001:0\> require ‘fox16’  
LoadError: no such file to load – fox16  
from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):003:0> require_gem 'fxruby' LoadError: no such file to load -- fox16 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:229:in`activate’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:228:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:228:in`activate’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:66:in  
`active_gem_with_options' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:59:in`require\_gem’  
from (irb):3  
irb(main):004:0\>

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**Author:** ![Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marinho_T)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-or-ruby-1-8-5-or-fxruby-or-maybe-64bit/67417/2 "2006-09-04T14:44:03Z")

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Marinho T. wrote:

> Hi there.  
> Well i have a little problem. I just recently installed ruby 1.8.5 and  
> rubygems 0.9 and Fox 1.6.4 and fxruby 1.6.  
> For fxruby i installed the gem and that seems to work. As you can see  
> gemm list -local shows fxruby. But for some reason it wouldn´t be found.  
> if i use irb neither require ‘fox16’ nor require ‘rubygems’ require\_gem  
> ‘fxruby’ work. Can somebody help me ?

Your gem list shows that you don’t have any other gems installed. Have  
you tried installing and using other gems?

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**Author:** ![Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marinho_T)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-or-ruby-1-8-5-or-fxruby-or-maybe-64bit/67417/3 "2006-09-04T19:44:03Z")

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Well pdf-writer gem seems to work. Maybe its a 64 bit problem. Fox  
works, i tried the calculator. And fxruby did work AFTER installing it  
from the sources AND after isntalling Ruby 1.8.4. Still it´s not a good  
solution for me, i would prefer to install it from gem.

Joel VanderWerf schrieb:

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**Author:** ![Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Marinho\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marinho_T)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-gem-or-ruby-1-8-5-or-fxruby-or-maybe-64bit/67417/4 "2006-09-06T19:24:38Z")

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On 9/4/06, Marinho T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Well pdf-writer gem seems to work. Maybe its a 64 bit problem. Fox  
> works, i tried the calculator. And fxruby did work AFTER installing it  
> from the sources AND after isntalling Ruby 1.8.4. Still it´s not a good  
> solution for me, i would prefer to install it from gem.

I don’t know if there is a binary gem distributed for FXRuby, but if  
it is, it’s almost certainly only built for 32-bit Ruby.

-austin