# Question about "No such file to load -- rexml/encodings/ISO- **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 9, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559 "2006-08-09T23:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/1 "2006-08-09T23:23:33Z")
Hi all, I am new to Ruby, so forgave me if this question has been asked before. I am running a software on Windows XP which is written in Ruby . The script has been converted to exe. I kept getting the following error message when I run it. No such file to load – rexml/encodinigs/ISO-8859-1.rb C:\DOCUME~1/username/LOCALS~1/Temp/eee..2/lib/rexml/encoding.rb:33:in encodinig=’: No decoder found for encoding ISO-8859-1. Please install iconv. I know that ISO-8859-1 is the encoder for Latin characters. I checked the path shown in the error message and there is nothing Ruby there. I installed Ruby in my computer after that and I do have the file ISO-8859-1.rb under Ruby directory now. But I am still getting the same message. So I am not sure if this problem comes up because I am using Windows. Can I specify the library for the executable to link some how? Thanks in advance. Yaoyao ---
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/2 "2006-08-09T23:44:36Z")
On 8/9/06, Yaoyao Gu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > encoding ISO-8859-1. Please install iconv. > Yaoyao > Hi, your script has been converted to exe with rubyscript2exe ([http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html)) so maybe there you can find some advice. First, try adding path to the ISO…rb to %RUBYOPTS%: set RUBYOPTS=%RUBYOPTS% -Ipath/to/iso88591.rb and hope that the packed script will pick it up 😉 If not, I would recommend extracting the archive (your.exe –eee-justextract) and checking if the file is there. If not, you can try to provide one (e.g. from your regular ruby installation, and make sure that is as much similar version as possible) and repack. I don’t remember the exact process of repacking, I was something like 1. edit .eee file found in the unpacked dir (add reference to iso8859 file), 2. call eee.exe \ \ Or, you can try running the script with your ‘regular’ ruby installation. Good luck! Jano ---
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/3 "2006-08-09T23:44:36Z")
Fix: On 8/9/06, Jan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 8/9/06, Yaoyao Gu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > First, try adding path to the ISO…rb to %RUBYOPTS%: > > set RUBYOPTS=%RUBYOPTS% -Ipath/to/iso88591.rb set RUBYOPTS=%RUBYOPTS% -Ipath/to/lib dir i.e. set RUBYOPTS=%RUBYOPTS% -Ic:/ruby/lib/1.8 Jano ---
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/4 "2006-08-10T01:50:41Z")
Hi Jano, I have tried unpack the exe file, then add the reference of ICONV.rb and ISO-8859-1.rb to the app.eee file. Then I repack the file and run it. I still have the same error as before. I attached the following code that generates this exception. Any hints? begin load ‘rexml/encodings/ICONV.rb’ instance\_eval @@\_\_REXML\_encoding\_methods Iconv::iconv( UTF\_8, @encoding, “” ) rescue LoadError, Exception =\> err raise “Bad encoding name #@encoding” unless @encoding =~ /^[\w-]+$/ @encoding.untaint enc\_file = File.join( “rexml”, “encodings”, “#@encoding.rb” ) begin load enc\_file instance\_eval @@\_\_REXML\_encoding\_methods rescue LoadError puts $!.message raise Exception.new( “No decoder found for encoding #@encoding. Please install iconv.” ) end end ---
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/5 "2006-08-15T14:12:18Z")
> No such file to load – rexml/encodinigs/ISO-8859-1.rb > C:\DOCUME~1/username/LOCALS~1/Temp/eee. .2/lib/rexml/encoding.rb:33:in encodinig=': > No decoder found for encoding ISO-8859-1. > Please install iconv. > You might want to try to load the correct encoding explicitly: require “rubyscript2exe.rb” load “rexml/encodings/ISO-8895-1.rb” if RUBYSCRIPT2EXE.is\_compiling? Can you post the smallest test script in which the problem still occurs? gegroet, Erik V. - [http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/](http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/) ---
**Author:** ![Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yaoyao\_Gu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yaoyao_Gu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-no-such-file-to-load-rexml-encodings-iso/64559/6 "2006-08-10T00:26:38Z")
Thanks for the quick reply! Well, this didn’t solve my problem. I guess I need to run the project from source. I will try that! Yaoyao