Because of a bug with Float#round in Ruby 1.8.6, I was forced to upgrade to 1.9.3 and boy was that awful. After install, irb didn’t work, complaining of a lack of psych. So I tried to install the gem, but it was angry that libyaml didn’t exist, so I installed that. Not sure why they weren’t included if they were so important.
Now when I use require 'Location.rb' (after having to specify that I actually do want to look in the current folder… using $LOAD_PATH), I get this error:
LoadError: cannot load such file -- crack/xml
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ap-0.1.1/lib/ap.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:in `rescue in require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require'
from /Users/tyre77/Dropbox/Aurora/GMap.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from (irb):3
from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
What does this mean? Also, when I execute ruby -v, it lists my version as 1.9.3p0 but this is dicking around in 1.9.1? All I want is my irb back and working!
It turned out that Ruby was looking for an XML parser called ‘crack’. I don’t know why it is referencing 2 versions of Ruby or why these dependencies aren’t included in the Ruby build (since irb won’t work without them) but to fix I installed the crack gem.
sudo gem install crack