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Ruby

Require Ruby Gems

Hi, When I put in the command require 'rubygems' it is returning false? Any idea why?

1.9.3p362 :001 > require 'rubygems' => false

4 Answers

From RubyGems

3.2

  • "A false return from the require method does not indicate an error. It just means that the file has already been loaded. " *

So if it continues to work, then it should be loaded. It may be that Jason's setup didn't load awesome_print initially (remember that Jason often switches between multiple versions of Ruby).

I tried the same video and also got the return value of 'false'

It seems like it may be working though, but still the video showed it saying True.

Successfully installed awesome_print-1.1.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for awesome_print-1.1.0... Installing RDoc documentation for awesome_print-1.1.0... daniels-imac-2:~ dsully15$ irb 1.9.3p362 :001 > require 'rubygems' => false 1.9.3p362 :002 > gem 'awesome_print' => true 1.9.3p362 :003 > require 'awesome_print' => true 1.9.3p362 :004 > h = Hash.new => {}

Perfect thanks.