[DRE-maint] Bug#440506: rubygems: Cannot run fxruby's example, as require 'fox16' fails

[Daigo Moriwaki]

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Hi Niklaus,

Niklaus Giger wrote:
> I installed fxruby 1.6.11 using rubygems.
> Then I tried to run one of the fox examples and got the following error
> ruby /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11/examples/inputs.rb
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11/examples/inputs.rb:3:in `require':
> no such file to load -- fox16 (LoadError)
>         from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11/examples/inputs.rb:3
> 
> Adding a 
> require 'rubygems'
> before the
> require 'fox16'
> fixed the problem.

This is not a bug of rubygems.

To use gems, you must "require 'rubygems'". The author of
fxruby-1.6.11/examples/inputs.rb would not expect to use the fox library in a
gem, which I think is not a bug.


> Thanks for your word and I hope we will find some day a good solution
> to mix apt-get and ruby gems seamlessly.

The upstream (i.e. Matz) told that Ruby 1.9.1, the coming major release, would
include rubygems. I also hope the integration will help packagers like Debian.


If you don't mind, I'd like to close this report.


Thanks,
Daigo

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Daigo Moriwaki
daigo at debian dot org
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