----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skeets" <skillet3232@[...].com> 
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@[...].org> 
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: RubyGems Issue


>  hi all,
> 
>  i have successfully installed gems on my winxp box.  when i type in
>  gems -v(or is it --version, i can't recall off hand) i get back the
>  current version (i think it is version 0.9).  so far, so good.
> 
>  however, when i fire up irb and try to
> 
>  include 'rubygems'
> 
>  false is returned.
> 
>  what am i doing wrong?
> 
>  tia...
> 
You are not doing anything wrong

the 'false' returns just indicate that rubygems has already be included.

for windows you do not need to include 'rubygems' before you include any 
other libraries