Ruby can not find the module (LoadError) under Windows

Question

I tried to connect to the database using Ruby (under Windows). For that:

• install Ruby in C:\Ruby193
• install devkit (c:\ruby193\devkit). Run "ruby dk.rb init", "ruby dk.rb install"
• downloaded rubygems (1.8.25). Executed ruby setup.rb
• and: gem install rubyfb (adapter Ruby for Firebird)

After that I wrote short rb-script:

require 'rubygems'
require 'rubyfb'
include Rubyfb

db = Database.new('test.gdb')

And got error:

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': 126: Can't find module - C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubyfb-0.6.7/lib/rubyfb_lib.so (LoadError)

This is the file exists, but Ruby can not find it. All my attempts to rectify the situation failed.

I installed another adapter, but the situation repeated - Ruby can not find another file.

Please advise.

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. All I had to do was copying C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_5\bin\fbclient.dll to C:\Ruby\bin.