# Rmagick gem path problem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gem-path-problem/93477>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 3, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gem-path-problem/93477 "2006-04-03T21:49:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bmgz)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gem-path-problem/93477/1 "2006-04-03T21:49:05Z")

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I am having a slight problem getting the  
rmagick gem loaded with rails…

I can do this:

require ‘RMagick’  
=\> true  
Magick.inspect  
=\> “Magick”

but this does not work:

require ‘rubygems’  
=\> true  
require\_gem ‘rmagick’  
=\> true  
Magick.inspect  
NameError: uninitialized constant Magick  
from (irb):3

any ideas?

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**Author:** ![bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bmgz)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gem-path-problem/93477/2 "2006-04-03T22:07:24Z")

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On Apr 3, 2006, at 9:48 PM, bmgz wrote:

> require ‘rubygems’  
> =\> true  
> require\_gem ‘rmagick’  
> =\> true  
> Magick.inspect  
> NameError: uninitialized constant Magick  
> from (irb):3
> 
> any ideas?

See:

[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_frm/thread/](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/)  
97fc6d4401e1dc47/44794c4fdb29c3bb?rnum=2#44794c4fdb29c3bb

– Daniel

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**Author:** ![bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bmgz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bmgz)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-gem-path-problem/93477/3 "2006-04-03T22:19:37Z")

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Daniel H. wrote:

> See:

[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_frm/thread/](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/)

> 97fc6d4401e1dc47/44794c4fdb29c3bb?rnum=2#44794c4fdb29c3bb
> 
> – Daniel  
> …

Ok, then if RAILS is using require ‘RMagick’ then everything  
should be fine, alas it’s some RAILS environment path that  
needs to be set…