I removed my older ruby package from my ubuntu, built ruby from source successfully. added the sym link from ruby1.8 -> ruby in /usr/bin/ however from the IRB I'm getting errors it can't find my gems? how do I fix this, I assume I need to define some environment variables? irb(main):003:0> require 'rubygems' LoadError: no such file to load -- rubygems from (irb):3:in `require' from (irb):3 from :0 irb(main):004:0> require 'grackle' LoadError: no such file to load -- grackle from (irb):4:in `require' from (irb):4 from :0 -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav http://DevMentor.org Do Good! - Share Freely