$LOAD_PATH problem when creating rake task

Testing RSpec
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I’m trying to put together some rake tasks to run my specs, but
require ‘spec/rake/spectask’ complains “no such file”. I’ve gem
installed rspec on my Ubuntu box and looks like it’s locate in
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.4/, which is not in load path

irb> $LOAD_PATH
=> [“/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8”,
“/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,
“/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “/usr/local/lib/site_ruby”,
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8”, “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “.”]

Now what? What would be a kosher way around this, maybe ln -s
something somewhere? I can see the issue being discussed though,

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tero T. [email protected] wrote:

“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “.”]

Now what? What would be a kosher way around this, maybe ln -s
something somewhere? I can see the issue being discussed though,
Bug #145267 “Add rubygems bin to PATH” : Bugs : libgems-ruby package : Ubuntu

Did you require rubygems first?

D:\Users\Luis>irb
irb(main):001:0> puts $LOAD_PATH
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-MINGW-rubygems-120/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-MINGW-rubygems-120/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-MINGW-rubygems-120/lib/ruby/site_ruby
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-MINGW-rubygems-120/lib/ruby/1.8
D:/Users/Luis/ruby/ruby-186-p114-MINGW-rubygems-120/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32
.
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> require ‘spec/rake/spectask’
LoadError: no such file to load – spec/rake/spectask
from (irb):2:in `require’
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):004:0> require ‘spec/rake/spectask’
=> true

Maybe just a stupid comment, if so, please disregard it.

Luis L.
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2008-07-29 11:59, Luis L.:

Did you require rubygems first?

Oh dear! You made my day. \o/

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Tero T. [email protected] wrote:

2008-07-29 11:59, Luis L.:

Did you require rubygems first?

Oh dear! You made my day. \o/

Sorry, I’m not a native english speaker, that means it worked? :slight_smile:

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2008-07-29 12:14, Luis L.:

Oh dear! You made my day. \o/
that means it worked? :slight_smile:

Yes. :slight_smile: