Require Nokogiri? No such file to load

Question

I'm trying to get started with using Nokogiri. I ran the command

gem install nokogiri

as an administrator in Windows 7 (64-Bit). The console said "successfully installed" and "1 gem installed".

When I type in

gem list --local OR gem q --local

I see Nokogiri on the list of "Local Gems".

However, when I try to use it via the require statement (in NetBeans), I get an error that there is "no such file to load".

What am I doing wrong? I'm not a Ruby professional. This is also the first gem I've installed. Please dumb it down for me.

Answer 1

With Ruby 1.8, you have to require 'rubygems' before requiring any libraries installed as gems. With Ruby 1.9, that is not necessary anymore.

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
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