Installing The ruby-gmail rubygem on Mac OS Snow Leopard
- by johnnygoodman
I'm working off these instructions: http://github.com/dcparker/ruby-gmail
From the home directory I do a standard install and good stuff happens:
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ sudo gem install ruby-gmail
Successfully installed ruby-gmail-0.2.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ruby-gmail-0.2.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-gmail-0.2.1...
I head over to my ~/www dir where I run scripts that include other rubygems successfully and create a gmail directory. I create a script that includes rubygems and gmail, but does nothing else:
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ pwd
/Users/johnnygoodman/www/gmail
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ ls
test-send.rb
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ cat test-send.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'gmail'
I run this script and the errors begin:
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ ruby test-send.rb
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- mime/message (LoadError)
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ruby-gmail-0.2.1/lib/gmail/message.rb:1
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ruby-gmail-0.2.1/lib/gmail.rb:168
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require'
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from test-send.rb:2
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$
Here's my gem env:
Johnny-Goodmans-MacBook-Pro:gmail johnnygoodman$ gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
- RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [universal-darwin10.0]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- universal-darwin-10
- GEM PATHS:
- /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8
- /Users/johnnygoodman/.gem/ruby/1.8
- /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- :sources => ["http://rubygems.org/", "http://gems.github.com"]
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://rubygems.org/
- http://gems.github.com
The path that the errors give when I run the script is not the same as the GEM PATHS given in the env output. However, I don't know how to make them match or if that's the significant thing here.
