# RedCloth and Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-and-rails/82032>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 16, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-and-rails/82032 "2007-01-16T23:08:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-and-rails/82032/1 "2007-01-16T23:08:57Z")

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With my hoster i don’t have the RedCloth gem.  
I’ve unpacked the gem in the vendor dir and thought that all  
automagically was functioning. 🙂  
But after googling i’ve added a line to my environment.rb :

require ‘RedCloth-3.0.4/lib/redcloth’ unless  
Object.const\_defined?(:RedCloth)

Ok, now i can use RedCloth.new…and so…, but why i can’t use the  
textilize function that i’ve used before with the RedCloth gem  
installed?