# What gem needs to be installed so that 'require sqlite3' will work?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 30, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-gem-needs-to-be-installed-so-that-require-sqlite3-will-work/149894 "2008-09-30T22:15:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-gem-needs-to-be-installed-so-that-require-sqlite3-will-work/149894/1 "2008-09-30T22:15:26Z")

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I’ve installed sqlite3-ruby, but that wasn’t enough; I’m still getting:

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘sqlite3’  
LoadError: no such file to load – sqlite3  
from (irb):1:in `require’  
from (irb):1

Thanks,  
Ken

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-gem-needs-to-be-installed-so-that-require-sqlite3-will-work/149894/2 "2008-09-30T22:20:07Z")

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Alle Tuesday 30 September 2008, Kenneth McDonald ha scritto:

> I’ve installed sqlite3-ruby, but that wasn’t enough; I’m still getting:
> 
> irb(main):001:0\> require ‘sqlite3’  
> LoadError: no such file to load – sqlite3  
> from (irb):1:in `require’  
> from (irb):1
> 
> Thanks,  
> Ken

If you installed sqlite3-ruby using rubygems, have you required  
‘rubygems’  
before requiring ‘sqlite3’ (or added rubygems to the RUBYOPT environment  
variable)?

Stefano

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-gem-needs-to-be-installed-so-that-require-sqlite3-will-work/149894/3 "2008-09-30T22:30:06Z")

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Yes, the require rubygems did it, thank you. As you can tell, I’m  
still pretty  
new to Ruby.

Thanks,  
Ken