# SVN r169 is out

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509 "2008-11-04T18:55:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509/1 "2008-11-04T18:55:27Z")

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rake compile is still busted due to command line overflow. Will fix this  
sometime after RubyConf 🙂

Thanks,  
-John

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509/2 "2008-11-04T21:59:40Z")

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Hi John,

I thought you mentioned previously on the list that the MRI gems will  
be used for the time being, I just tried and it doesn’t seem to be  
picking them up.

Is there anything extra I have to do? I was hoping I would just be  
able to do a require on the gem

Ben

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509/3 "2008-11-04T22:58:30Z")

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You can set GEM\_PATH environment variable in your user profile to point  
to your \lib\ruby\gems\1.8 directory. This works fine on my machine  
here.

Curt just got gem install working (modulo rdoc binary regex strangeness)  
here, so we’re really close to gem install working.

Thanks,  
-John

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**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 11:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509/4 "2008-11-05T11:28:25Z")

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Hi Ben

I had trouble but you can try to write your code like this

require ‘rubygems’  
gem ‘spec’

## that should work… that’s how i have to require rails

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-r169-is-out/152509/5 "2008-11-04T23:16:41Z")

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Hi John,

I feel we might be talking about different things. I’ve got my  
GEM\_PATH variable set.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\>echo %GEM\_PATH%  
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8

When I try and access the gem, it fails - I expected this to work but  
feel this is where I might have misunderstood.

E:\IronRuby\r169\build\debug\>ir

> > > require ‘rubygems’  
> > > =\> true
> 
> > > require ‘spec’  
> > > e:\IronRuby\r169\src\IronRuby.Libraries\Builtins\kernelops.cs:400:in  
> > > `require’: no such file to load – spec (LoadError)

```
    from custom_require.rb:26:in `require'
    from :0

```

The only way I have got this to work is to set the lib path to the  
spec.rb file for LibraryPaths in the ir.config. Should this have  
worked?

Thanks

Ben