I have used gem to load flickr, which appears to have been loaded.

However the only way I can get the requires to work is with this.

ruby -I /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/flickr-1.0.0/ -I 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/ f.rb

I have missed something here, but what is it?