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Ryan Wetter
3,773 PointsLoad Error: No such file to load -- rubygems HELP!!!
I'm trying to require ' rubygems ' in irb after installing awesome_print in Ruby. This is situation comes up in the first video on Hashes in the Ruby Foundations video series found here: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/ruby-foundations/hashes/creating-hashes
After installing awesome_print, then launching irb, I enter require ' rubygems ' as instructed, but the following error message is returned:
LoadError: no such file to load -- rubygems
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire'
from (irb):1
HELP! I'd like to solve this so I can move forward
3 Answers
Michael Nguyen
6,138 PointsTry this (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=no+such+file+to+load+--+rubygems). Lots of people have had the same error message.
Michael Nguyen
6,138 Pointshmm... looks like you have white spaces issue. Try this require 'rubygems' (there are no spaces between single quote and the word rubygems)
Michael Nguyen
6,138 Pointshmm... looks like you have white spaces issue. Try this require 'rubygems' (there are no spaces between single quote and the word rubygems)
Ryan Wetter
3,773 PointsRyan Wetter
3,773 PointsThanks Michael. I didn't think of doing this right off the bat. If I did think of this and went through the various posts regarding the issue - and similar issues - I would have found a lot of helpful information, which would be helpful if I had any idea of how to program. But seeing that I'm using TreeHouse to learn programming for the first time (having 0 experience in it), none of the answers that Google has produced make any sense to me - probably because they're in a language (Ruby) that I don't speak. Either that, or my inability to understand the Google results exposes an glaring mental deficiency, which I'll get right on top of after someone here at TreeHouse community explains the answer in simple terms.