Question

I’ve got a wrapper for my Gem, socks, inside socks.rb. The entire file is made up of require statements, and a module declaration:

# lib/socks.rb
require 'socks/version'
require 'socks/base_controller'
require 'socks/templates'
require 'socks/tasks'
require 'socks/rake_tasks'

module Socks
end

However, require 'socks/tasks' and socks/rake_tasks is giving me a LoadError: no such file to load -- socks/tasks / rake_tasks error.

Is this a problem with the alignment of the require statements, or just the code?

Code is on Github: https://github.com/Beakr/socks

EDIT: require './socks/tasks' is now working, however require './socks/rake_tasks' is not.

Answer 1

Ruby load files using its $LOAD_PATH. This global array is changed by e.g. rubygems and bundler to allow to find libraries in various locations. In your sock.gemspec you have defined

gem.require_paths = ["lib"]

which means that rubygems will add the lib directory of your gem to ruby’s $LOAD_PATH. But it odes so only if you have installed the gem and the gemspec is thus evaluated. If you don’t want to install your gem, you can test your gem using

bundle exec irb

in your gem directory, or alternatively by first adapting your $LOAD_PATH in your irb session like so:

$LOAD_PATH.push "/path/to/your/gem/lib"
require 'socks'