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Blankman
Blankman

Reputation: 267160

simple ruby script that tests out mail lib not working, please help

Using irb the mail library worked fine, now I am creating my first ruby script.

I am getting the error:

testmail.rb:3:in `require': no such file to load -- mail (LoadError)
    from testmail.rb:3

Below is the file testmail.rb:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'mail'



if __FILE__ == $0

  Mail.defaults do
    retriever_method :pop3, { :address             => "mail.blah.com",
                             :port                => 995,
                             :user_name           => '[email protected]',
                             :password            => 'asdfasdf',
                             :enable_ssl          => false }
    end

  emails = Mail.all

end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 544

Answers (3)

Pablo Fernandez
Pablo Fernandez

Reputation: 287690

You need to require rubygems before requiring any gem:

require "rubygems"
require "mail"

should work.

Upvotes: 3

ennuikiller
ennuikiller

Reputation: 46965

In irb execute puts$: and at the command line execute ruby -e "puts $:" You should see which gem path you are missing.

Upvotes: 0

Jörg W Mittag
Jörg W Mittag

Reputation: 369556

How did you install the mail library? Which version of Ruby are you using? Which package did you use to install Ruby?

If you installed mail via RubyGems, for example, and you are using Ruby 1.8, then you have to make sure that the RubyGems library is loaded before you load any Gems. Or more precisely, your administrator should have your environment set up in such a way that RubyGems gets loaded for you.

Upvotes: 0

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