Ruby no such file to load

Question

I'm trying to use httparty

require 'httparty'

but I'm getting

no such file to load -- httparty (LoadError)

I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 on OSX

Answer 1

On Ruby 1.8, you have to do require "rubygems" before you can require any Gems in your code. So:

require "rubygems"
require "httparty"

# Your code here.