Hi Matt, First of all, thank you so much for working on the gem issue with macruby. There is no more important work in the world, er universe, right now than this--I mean it, from the bottom of my frustrated-at-not-being-able-to-use-sqlite3-heart. I am hoping you could comment on why sqlite3-ruby seems to install, but still isn't functional. Here is how I did with my first try at using µgem. 1. Installing rake via µgem appears to have worked! (this is hard to verify because "require 'rake'" works in macirb even before installing with µgem). 2. Installing sqlite3 via µgem seems to have worked! (BUT "require 'sqlite3'" STILL FAILS in macirb). How do you test gems installed via µgem? Where do they install to? Does that path need to be added to the $: for macirb to find them? Sorry for the basic questions... Thanks, Tim Here is my terminal screen: Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> sudo ./µgem install rake [info] Installing `rake-0.8.3' Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> which rake /usr/bin/rake Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> macgem which rake /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.4/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/rake.rb Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> sudo ./µgem install sqlite3-ruby Password: [info] Installing `sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4' Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> macgem which sqlite3 Can't find sqlite3 Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> macgem which sqlite3-ruby Can't find sqlite3-ruby Tim:~/Documents/References/Technical/Ruport Book and pics/microgem/bin> macgem query --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** alloy-microgem (0.2.0)