They require that the rubigems not work

Question

when I type irb> require 'rubygems' , it returns false. I have a lot of gems in the rails app that obviously work - rake, activerecord, etc. What could be wrong here? thanks.

Ruby 1.8.6. Rails 1.2.6

Answer 1

It throws an exception if it does not work, it returns false if it is already loaded.