Reputation: 12132
I'm running Ruby v1.8.7 and Rails v3.0.9.
I'm trying to use this twitter gem: http://twitter.rubyforge.org/, v1.7.0
The directions state you need to:
require 'rubygems' require 'twitter'
However, I'm getting this error:
LoadError no such file to load -- twitter
I read on SO that the 1.7.0 gem isn't compatible with Ruby 1.8.7, so I downgraded to 0.9 (the version the SO answer mentioned was compatible with 1.8.x) and that still didn't work.
One thing that's weird is that if I fire up irb, and include rubygems first, I can include twitter with no problems.
I had to install the gem using sudo, but I don't think that should be the problem.
Any ideas how I can successfully include this twitter gem into my application? It looks super easy to use, once I can get over this hurdle.
Update: I tried adding
gem 'twitter'
to my Gemfile and ran bundle install, and now I get a Phusion Passenger error:
Ruby (Rack) application could not be started Could not find twitter-1.7.1 in any of the sources (Bundler::GemNotFound)
Upvotes: 2
Views: 3280
Reputation: 12132
So it turns out I was actually able to install twitter v.1.7.1
Other information I received from around the web that I'd need to downgrade to 0.9.0 turns out to be false.
I ran:
sudo gem list
And compared the versions of specific gems with what I found here: https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/blob/master/HISTORY.md (I simply searched for the word 'dependency' to see which versions twitter cared about.
I also found this diff: https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/commit/ac8114c1f6ba2da20c2267d3133252c2ffc6b6a3
And I compared the gems listed there with what I had installed, and I just made sure my system lined up with what I was seeing in the version notes. Oftentimes what happened is that I had multiple versions of a gem, and for some reason, the lower version was taking precedence.
I'm not sure why I still have to add
gem 'twitter', '1.7.1'
to my Gemfile, but alas, that's the last step required in order to get this stuff working.
Phew!
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 3137
you need to require the twitter gem in your Gemfile. Run bundle install, now check again.
gem 'twitter'
Upvotes: 6