Ruby Gem Require LoadError (8-STABLE, Ruby 1.9.1)

Aaron Gifford astounding at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 02:05:24 UTC 2010


I wrote:
> A HA!
>
> This helps:
>
> GEM_HOME=/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/ irb19
> irb(main):001:0> require 'net/ssh'
> => true
>
> So if I manually set $GEM_HOME, things work.
>
> Any ideas what might be happening, anyone?
>
> Aaron out.


One more interesting thing:

% ruby19 -e 'p Gem.default_dir'
"/usr/local/lib/ruby19/gems/1.9"

That is NOT right.  It should be "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9" instead.

Where does Gem.default_dir get set, does anyone know?

Aaron out.


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