[Geany-Users] cannot load such file -- mail (LoadError)

[Lex Trotman]

On 18 December 2012 06:07, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> New to geany, and starting with ruby, so just finding my way so far.
>
> I cannot seem to use the mail gem:
>
> /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in
> `require': cannot load such file -- mail (LoadError)
>         from
> /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in
> `require'
>         from mail.rb:3:in `<main>'
>
>
> ------------------
> (program exited with code: 1)
> Press return to continue
>

I presume this is the result of an execute command in Geany.

Do you start Geany from a desktop menu?  If so the desktop is probably
not running Geany in  shell, so the shell variables (like Ruby search
path) are not set.  Try running Geany from a command line and see if
that works.

Cheers
Lex

>
>
>
> whereas from the CLI works fine:
>
>
> thufir at dur:~/ruby$
> thufir at dur:~/ruby$ ruby mail.rb
> hello world
> thufir at dur:~/ruby$
> thufir at dur:~/ruby$ cat mail.rb
> require 'yaml'
> require 'net/imap'
> require 'mail'
>
> puts 'hello world'
> thufir at dur:~/ruby$
>
>
> what's going on?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
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