Require 'rspec' and Ruby 1.8.7

Ruby
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I am new to Ruby but not to Software Engineering.

I am trying to make some existing code work
on the Raring Ringtail version of Ubuntu.

The original code was written with Ruby 1.8
so I have removed Ruby 1.9.1 and installed 1.8.7
which solved some initial problems.

require ‘rspec’
causes the error.
in `require’: no such file to load – rspec (LoadError)
I have tried
sudo apt-get install ruby-rspec-core
and it makes no difference to the output.

Why can’t Ruby find rspec?
Do I have to apt-get an older version of rspec-core?
If so, how do I find out which one?
Or do I need to add something else to $RUBYLIB
Or something else?

Thanks for your help.

2

Does the file in question also require ‘rubygems’? If not, you could
either
add that line before the rspec one, or call the script with -rrubygems.

The latter was the one considered a best practice, I recall.

3

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Mary-Anne Wolf
[email protected]wrote:

causes the error.
in `require’: no such file to load – rspec (LoadError)
I have tried
sudo apt-get install ruby-rspec-core
and it makes no difference to the output.

Looking at what ubuntu actually packages in the ruby-rspec-core package
(
Ubuntu – Error) that
package doesn’t include what you’d need to “require ‘rspec’”.

However, the ruby-rspec package (which depends on ruby-rspec-core and
others) does (Ubuntu – Error

specifically note: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rspec.rb).

Now, if it’s the case that you already have the ruby-rspec package
installed and it still doesn’t work, then you could help us help you by
giving us the output of: ruby -e ‘puts $:’

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However, the ruby-rspec package (which depends on ruby-rspec-core and
others) does (http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/all/ruby-rspec/filelist

Thank-you! apt-get ruby-rspec solves the problem.

Mary-Anne