Question

I have installed google api client with the following code and it installed successfuly.

gem install google-api-client

I am using rails 3.0.3 so i also included the above line bundler and ran bundle install which went successfully.

I have also rvm installed. And created a gemset.

And when I run the following command in the terminal:

gem environment | grep INSTALLATION | awk '{print $4}'

It gives me the following result

/home/jamal/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194

When i try to execute the following code in scintilla outside the project directory. It gives me an error.

require 'rubygems'
require 'google/api_client'

ERROR:

usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- google/api_client (LoadError)
    from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'

What is the main reason of this kind of error?

Answer 1

Possible chances are your editor does not loading the specific gemset in which you install the gem.

Please provide output of gem list google-api-client -d in your questions. So that I can figure it out exactly what is going one.

EDIT:
Another issue which usually occurs are the dual installation of ruby. When we do have a system level installation and a rvm installation, many editor got confused in it. They load up original system installed ruby which do have prefixes like 1.8.7, 1.9.1and available in /usr/share/bin/. Where was you had installed the gem in rvm profile. To overcome this problem you must run your code from terminal after choosing the right gemset