Configuration problems with Ruby’s XmlSimple
I like Ruby gems, I can see the resemblance to Perl’s old CPAN idea. CPAN always drove me crazy since everything you pulled down then had say 8-10 more libraries that it required. Till this day I still avoid often avoid perl just because of the pain of constantly installing libraries to get simple things to work.
I ran into one of those too easy to go wrong type problems. Just two easy steps to use XmlSimple:
sudo gem gem install xml-simple- Run a ruby script with
require 'xmlsimple'
Two hours later I still get the same useless error that doesn’t really have any google hits:
`require': no such file to load -- xmlsimple
Ed Gibbs @ May 28, 2006
Hi Ed,
Not sure what platform you’re on, but you may need to close your terminal/command line session before using a newly installed gem.
I also ran into a problem the other day where I ended up with two gem repositories — I was installing to one location and rails was looking at a different place. the GEM_HOME env variable helped in that case.
Good luck!
Luke
I’m on Mac OS X 10.4, and I figured out my problem here. Thanks for the ideas though, as it forced me to spend more time reading the Ruby Gems manual where I was able to find the answer.