# Ruby loading libs (RSS)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-loading-libs-rss/174472>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 27, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-loading-libs-rss/174472 "2009-08-27T07:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![f1r3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@f1r3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/f1r3)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-loading-libs-rss/174472/1 "2009-08-27T07:10:23Z")

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I’m following the instructions here  
[http://www.cozmixng.org/~rwiki/?cmd=view;name=RSS+Parser%3A%3AREADME.en](http://www.cozmixng.org/~rwiki/?cmd=view;name=RSS+Parser%3A%3AREADME.en)  
to update RSS.

When I run RSS::VERSION in irb, it gives me  
irb(main):003:0\> require ‘rss’  
=\> true  
irb(main):004:0\> RSS::VERSION  
=\> “0.1.6”

But if I sudo -s, it gives me  
irb(main):002:0\> RSS::VERSION  
=\> “0.2.3”

Is there any difference between running irb under sudo or not? Is there  
a config I can set to determine which libs to load?

Besides using RSS, are there other recommended ways to parse RSS feeds?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![f1r3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@f1r3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/f1r3)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-loading-libs-rss/174472/2 "2009-08-27T16:48:09Z")

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If anyone has the same problem, the load paths where listed in different  
orders - /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8 and /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 were  
reversed under root. I fixed it by removing rss files under  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8.