Bug 482312 – dev-ruby/jeweler-1.8.4 - /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- git (LoadError)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Gill 2013-08-24 10:11:09 UTC]

Created attachment 356846 [details]
Output from emerge --info

Attempting to run jeweler fails with the following error on my system:

/usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- git (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in `require'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/jeweler-1.8.4/lib/jeweler/generator.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in `require'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in `rescue in require'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require'
        from /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/jeweler-1.8.4/bin/jeweler:6:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/bin/jeweler:8:in `load'
        from /usr/bin/jeweler:8:in `<main>'

The git gem is not listed as a dependency in the jeweler gemspec for version 1.8.4.

The versions for important related programs follow. I'm including the output for 'emerge --info' as an attachment.

ruby --version:
  ruby 1.9.3p448 (2013-06-27 revision 41675) [x86_64-linux]

gem --version:
  1.8.24

[Comment 1 Hans de Graaff 2013-08-25 07:12:38 UTC]

Can you provide a bit more context on the situation in which you encounter this error? From the output it is not clear to me what you are trying to do.

[Comment 2 Robert Gill 2013-08-26 19:35:30 UTC]

(In reply to Hans de Graaff from comment #1)
> Can you provide a bit more context on the situation in which you encounter
> this error? From the output it is not clear to me what you are trying to do.

I encounter it when running /usr/bin/jeweler. I don't pass any command line arguments.

[Comment 3 Hans de Graaff 2013-08-27 18:29:27 UTC]

Looking at our jeweler history the git gem was deprecated when we originally added jeweler, and we never added it to the ebuild, probably because it wasn't needed to support installing other jeweler-based gems.

It looks like the git gem is now supported again, and I've added it as dev-ruby/git. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to fix jeweler yet, since we face a similar issue with github_api.

[Comment 4 Hans de Graaff 2015-06-07 06:49:11 UTC]

This was fixed with jeweler 2.0.1 where all runtime dependencies are available.