This is in windows ..
So from irb, I can load hpricot ok. (ruby 1.8.7)
C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\plug-test>irb irb(main):001:0> require 'hpricot' LoadError: no such file to load -- hpricot from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):003:0> require 'hpricot' => true irb(main):004:0> quit
but from the rails console I seem to not be able to:
C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\plug-test>rails console Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.5) irb(main):001:0> irb(main):002:0* require 'rubygems' => nil irb(main):003:0> require 'hpricot' LoadError: no such file to load -- hpricot from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:596:in `new_constants_in' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/ active_su pport/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from (irb):3 irb(main):004:0> irb(main):005:0* irb(main):006:0* quit
C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\plug-test> C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\plug-test>gem list
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
abstract (1.0.0) actionmailer (3.0.5) actionpack (3.0.5) activemodel (3.0.5) activerecord (3.0.5) activeresource (3.0.5) activesupport (3.0.5) arel (2.0.9) builder (3.0.0, 2.1.2) bundler (1.0.10) commonwatir (1.8.0) erubis (2.6.6) firewatir (1.8.0) git (1.2.5) hoe (2.9.1) hpricot (0.8.4) i18n (0.5.0) jeweler (1.6.0) mail (2.2.15) mime-types (1.16) nokogiri (1.4.4.1 x86-mingw32) polyglot (0.3.1) rack (1.2.2) rack-mount (0.6.14) rack-test (0.5.7) rails (3.0.5) railties (3.0.5) rake (0.8.7) rubygems-update (1.6.2) rubyzip (0.9.4) s4t-utils (1.0.4) sqlite3 (1.3.3 x86-mingw32) sqlite3-ruby (1.3.3) thor (0.14.6) treetop (1.4.9) tzinfo (0.3.25) user-choices (1.1.6.1) watir (1.8.0) win32-api (1.4.8 x86-mingw32) win32-process (0.6.5) win32-sapi (0.1.6) windows-api (0.4.0) windows-pr (1.2.0) xml-simple (1.0.15)