Erik Hollensbe wrote: > Is this 1.9? I'm not sure how rubygems would be automatically required > in 1.8.x. I guess it's also possible that the require overrides have > been removed from rubygems. require_gem has been deprecated for some > time and probably has been removed by now. > > Well, either way, I can test it at home (personally, I prefer the gem > statements to magic, moving-target require statements) but it doesn't > seem like your problem has anything to do with DBI or DBI::DBD::Mysql, > but either rubygems or your misunderstanding of the version you're > working with. > > -Erik No, I'm 1.8.6... some patch level. I have been doing a lot of testing in irb and have not really tried it in a program... maybe irb does some automatic gem stuff that does not get done when running a program? Anyway, I'll try it out on my ruby box when I'm done with work tonight to see if that works differently than running stuff in irb. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.