Rubygems can't find gems

Ruby
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Hi,

I have a problem with rubygems on a OS X 10.4.10 Tiger PPC. Ruby 1.8.6
and rubygems 0.9.4 are installed properly. Ruby is installed through
fink so I set PREFIX to /sw. I installed rubygems by

PREFIX=/sw
export GEM_HOME=$PREFIX/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
export RUBYLIB=$PREFIX/lib/ruby:$PREFIX/lib/site_ruby/1.8
sudo ruby setup.rb all --prefix=$PREFIX

so it should be aware of the repository path. I installed some gems, the
gem list command shows them as expected.

I have -rubygems in RUBYOPT.

But when I simply require any gem by name, I get a LoadError (on the
file, not rubygems itself). If I specify the absolute path of the gem’s
main file to require, it passes without error.

What may be wrong with my setup?

thx
mortee

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Replying to myself: it turned out that I was using the wrong way to
check if I can require the given gem, and actually rubygems works just
fine. This transformed my problem into another question. What’s the
difference between the following two cases?

$ ruby -rsome-gem -e ‘puts “ok”’
ruby: no such file to load – some-gem (LoadError)
$ ruby -e ‘require “some-gem”; puts “ok”’
ok
$

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mortee wrote:

sudo ruby setup.rb all --prefix=$PREFIX
What may be wrong with my setup?

thx
mortee

Before you can require a gem, you must require RubyGems. This occurs
automatically for you because you have -rubygems in RUBYOPT. However,
when you using the -r option to require a file, Ruby doesn’t
automatically require RubyGems, so Ruby can’t find the thing you want to
require. The only kind of libraries you can require with the -r option
are libraries that aren’t gems.

I’m pretty sure this limitation will be removed in the next release of
Ruby.