# Re: GetoptLong Accessing the values with out looping

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getoptlong-accessing-the-values-with-out-looping/94857>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 16, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getoptlong-accessing-the-values-with-out-looping/94857 "2006-05-16T18:24:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getoptlong-accessing-the-values-with-out-looping/94857/1 "2006-05-16T18:24:50Z")

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> > 
> 
> removed them and built ruby 1.8.4 and gems 0.8.11 built from source.
> 
> Any ideas?

Do you see a long.rb under  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/getopt-1.3.4?

If not, something went wrong. If so, then maybe you need to set your  
RUBYOPT environment variable, or you’ll need to require ‘rubygems’  
first.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getoptlong-accessing-the-values-with-out-looping/94857/2 "2006-05-16T20:00:35Z")

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> Do you see a long.rb under  
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/getopt-1.3.4?
> 
> If not, something went wrong. If so, then maybe you need to set your  
> RUBYOPT environment variable, or you’ll need to require ‘rubygems’  
> first.

Its there. Still no go. I am going to uninstall ruby and use gems to  
install  
it.  
Any suggestions on how to remove ruby? It was compiled from source.

Thanks everyone for all there help today.  
Paul

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-getoptlong-accessing-the-values-with-out-looping/94857/3 "2006-05-17T00:53:23Z")

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On May 16, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Paul D. Kraus wrote:

> to install  
> it.  
> Any suggestions on how to remove ruby? It was compiled from source.
> 
> Thanks everyone for all there help today.  
> Paul

Wait, did you do this:

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘getopt/long’

# rest of script

Use gems to install what? If you mean ruby, you can’t install ruby  
from a gem (especially not after removing ruby, w/o ruby how is  
rubygems supposed to run?)