Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02816] Re: After-the-fact installation questions"
    on 00/05/14, Albert Wagner <alwagner / tcac.net> writes:

|Thanks for the reply, Matz.  I discovered part of the answer by studying
|the code for rbconfig.rb and mkmf.rb.  But I am still uncertain as to
|how far down the installation tree ruby searches for files.

Ruby does not search files recursively.  You must specify paths
explicitly, e.g.

            require "net/ftp"

Hope this helps

							matz.