Bug #6906: cannot load such file -- rubygems.rb (LoadError)

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [i686-linux]

[detomastah (Łukasz Pełszyński)]

After 1.9.3 compilation, I cannot run ./ruby from compilation directory. I have to do make install to make it work.

I would like you to reopen ticket http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4941 concerning this bug. I call it a bug, because it never occurred prior to 1.9.3.
It also breaks non-written rule of UNIX programs running after compilation. It sounds just stupid to me to install it after every recompilation, in order to benchmark my changes.

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

If you did not install ruby but could run ruby programs you were using a previously installed ruby standard library. This behavior has existed since at least ruby 1.8.

If you would like to run the compiled ruby and standard library use make runruby.

If you would like to run benchmarks use make benchmark.

Last I checked, vim did not follow this un-written rule either. Like ruby, vim needs files installed into the expected runtime locations.