# Require Statement Problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/require-statement-problem/114439>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 12, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/require-statement-problem/114439 "2007-09-12T18:55:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mwalsh)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/require-statement-problem/114439/1 "2007-09-12T18:55:30Z")

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Hello,

I am trying some things from irb and having trouble loading the  
mechanize library. When I do gem list, it is in the list as:

mechanize (0.6.10, 0.6.9)  
Mechanize provides automated web-browsing

But if I go to the irb prompt and do require ‘mechanize’, I get:

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘mechanize’  
LoadError: no such file to load – mechanize  
from (irb):1:in `require’  
from (irb):1

What have I got wrong?

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**Author:** ![mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mwalsh)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/require-statement-problem/114439/2 "2007-09-12T18:59:32Z")

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require “rubygems”  
require “mechanize”

🙂

RSL