I’m (brand) new to Ruby, so treat my questions in that light. On trying
to install Beast (web forum software on Rails) I am required to test
that requiring fcgi, or fcgi.so returns true from within irb.
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require fcgi.so
NameError: undefined local variable or method `fcgi’ for main:Object
from (irb):1
I guessed that there may be an issue with paths, so tried the full path
to the lib.
irb(main):002:0> require
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.so
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):2: unknown regexp options - lb
(irb):2: no . floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot
require /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.so
^
(irb):2: parse error, unexpected tINTEGER
require /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/lib/fcgi.so
^
from (irb):2
from :0
The above has worked before (ie. using the full path), giving the output
‘true’.
I have two questions.
How do I configure things so that I don’t have to specify the full
path to a lib.
How do I resolve the above error? Should I be speaking to the
ruby-fcgi guys?
OS slackware linux
ruby 1.8.5-p2
ruby fcgi 0.8.7
fcgi 2.4.0
I’m (brand) new to Ruby, so treat my questions in that light. On trying
to install Beast (web forum software on Rails) I am required to test
that requiring fcgi, or fcgi.so returns true from within irb.
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require fcgi.so
NameError: undefined local variable or method `fcgi’ for main:Object
from (irb):1
Hi Dale, welcome to Ruby!
You have to put quotes around fcgi, like
require “fcgi”
or
require “fcgi.so”
Otherwise Ruby tries to find a local variable or a method called fcgi,
and then you get the NameError you’ve shown.
Thanks for the advice Pit, but there still appears to be a path issue?
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require “fcgi”
LoadError: no such file to load – fcgi
from (irb):1:in require' from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> require "fcgi.so" LoadError: no such file to load -- fcgi.so from (irb):2:inrequire’
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require “rubygems”
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require “fcgi”
=> true
irb(main):003:0>
If you are going to work with rubygems more often, it is a good idea to
add RUBYOPT=-rubygems to your .bash_rc. This allows you to just use
require “library|code_snippet” in the future.