> I think you likely are not telling Ruby that you are using gems. > Either define the environment variable: > > export RUBYOPT=-rubygems > > (for bash, some shells do this differently) > > in your shell, or add '-rubygems' to the command line when starting > ruby. > > There might be other ways, but I don't know them. > > You can test this by running irb and trying to require erubis. you can also just require 'rubygems' -- Chris Carter concentrationstudios.com brynmawrcs.com