Rails - Mar 2006 - RubyGem loading into a controller (High quality question)

INSTALLATION:

Ruby 1.8.2
Rails 1.0.0
rubyful_soup 1.0.4 (GEM)

FACTS:
0) I have successfully installed the rubyful_soup GEM using (I had 
previously installed it, which is why the output may look sparse):

C:\ruby>gem install -r rubyful_soup
Attempting remote installation of ''rubyful_soup''
Successfully installed rubyful_soup-1.0.4
Installing RDoc documentation for rubyful_soup-1.0.4...

1) I have a controller.  The first 4 lines are:

require ''rubygems''
require_gem ''rubyful_soup'', ''>= 1.0.4''

class ESimplyController < ApplicationController

2) In this controller I have a method.  Here it is:

public
def index
  parser = BeautifulSoup.new(String.new "test")    #Establish the
parse
tree
end

When I execute this action, I get:

  "uninitialized constant BeautifulSoup"

which basically tells me that the BeautifulSoup class within the 
rubyful_soup.rb file can''t be seen.

3) Inside of the rubyful_soup.rb file, the BeautifulSoup class is 
defined, like so:

class BeautifulSoup < BeautifulStoneSoup
....

QUESTION 1: Have I correctly included this RubyGem?

QUESTION 2: Does something else need to be done to successfully export 
the BeautifulSoup class name so that it''s accessible?

QUESTION 3: Does something else need to be done to successfully import 
the BeautifulSoup class name so that it''s accessible?

Thanks for any help that you can provide.  I am at my wit''s end.

To top it all off, at random times and under circumstances that I am 
unable to recreate, this was totally working for me.  I do not 
understand what is wrong.

Thanks,
Wes



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There appears to be a time component to my problem.  If I leave my
WEBrick server up for a few minutes (maybe 5 maybe 10 I''m not sure),
all
of a sudden it can find the GEM and everything works.

Perhaps there is some kind of caching going on with autoloading of
classes???

Wes Gamble wrote:
> INSTALLATION:
> 
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Rails 1.0.0
> rubyful_soup 1.0.4 (GEM)
> 
...

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SOLUTION:

Apparently

require_gem

doesn''t actually require anything, it just enforces the versioning 
rules.

So I needed to do

require ''rubygems''
require ''rubyful_soup''
require_gem ''rubyful_soup'', ''>= 1.0.4''

WG

Wes Gamble wrote:
> There appears to be a time component to my problem.  If I leave my
> WEBrick server up for a few minutes (maybe 5 maybe 10 I''m not
sure), all
> of a sudden it can find the GEM and everything works.
> 
> Perhaps there is some kind of caching going on with autoloading of
> classes???
> 
> Wes Gamble wrote:
>> INSTALLATION:
>> 
>> Ruby 1.8.2
>> Rails 1.0.0
>> rubyful_soup 1.0.4 (GEM)
>> 
> ...

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