# Problems with archive-tar-external

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-archive-tar-external/110915>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-archive-tar-external/110915 "2007-08-01T00:58:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bram_Kuijper)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-archive-tar-external/110915/1 "2007-08-01T00:58:54Z")

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Hi all,

as a ruby newbie I am trying to build a small script using Daniel  
Berger’s archive-tar-external package:  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/)

so I try to repeat the following example from the docs:  
[http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/518/archive-tar-external.html](http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/518/archive-tar-external.html)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w  
require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘archive/tar\_external’  
Include Archive

…

however, ruby will give the following error:

tarfiles.rb:8: undefined method `Include’ for main:Object  
(NoMethodError)

does anyone know what I’m doing wrong here?

thanks,  
Bram

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**Author:** ![Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bram_Kuijper)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-archive-tar-external/110915/2 "2007-08-01T02:02:59Z")

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Bram Kuijper wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w  
> require ‘rubygems’  
> require ‘archive/tar\_external’  
> Include Archive
> 
> …  
> “include” has a lower case “i”.

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**Author:** ![Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bram\_Kuijper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bram_Kuijper)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-archive-tar-external/110915/3 "2007-08-01T11:13:49Z")

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guess I was quite tired. Thx!