Rubygems and RUBYLIB / RUBYPATH

[shadowfirebird]

[Gutsy; Ruby 1.8]

Okay, I've installed rubygems twice now, once from Synaptic and once from Rubyforge. Same problem both times.

The gem command works fine. I get the gem I am after. The problem comes when I try to use the thing. It doesn't know about it.

Now, I've done a 'gem environment' and I know where gem is putting stuff, and it's genuinely there (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8). So presumably I need to set RUBYLIB to something. I've tried /usr/lib/ruby/gems, /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8, and /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems. But nothing works.

I'm sure I'm just being thick here. Any ideas, anyone?

[Jessehk]

In a ruby script that requires a rubygem, make sure you


require "rubygems"


before anything else. That is most likely the cause of your problem.

[shadowfirebird]

Many thanks. I thought that that was for getting gem to install things automatically that you don't already have. Apparently not, since that seems to have got me a little further, at least.

It still looks as if I need to set a path, or do something.:
andy@Blake:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'sqlite3-ruby'
LoadError: no such file to load -- sqlite3-ruby
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from (irb):2


I tried this again with RUBYLIB set, but got exactly the same thing. Plus, does this mean that 'ri' doesn't work on libraries installed via gem? That's a bit of a bummer.

[shadowfirebird]

I had to look at the code to figure out it was:
require 'rubygems'
require 'sqlite3'


Many thanks.