Hello all (again), I may have found the root of the problem. If so, I need a fix. Laurent's hint, 'NSBundle.bundleWithPath('/System/Library/Frameworks/ Cocoa.framework').load' succeeds,. Tim Rand's pointing out the $: variable was a big help, and here's the result:
$:.each {|sp| puts sp + "\n"} /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/gems/ 1.9.0/gems/rb-appscript-0.5.1/lib /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/gems/ 1.9.0/gems/yahoofinance-1.2.2/lib /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ site_ruby/1.9.0 /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ site_ruby/1.9.0/universal-darwin9.0 /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ site_ruby /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ vendor_ruby/1.9.0 /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ vendor_ruby/1.9.0/universal-darwin9.0 /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/ vendor_ruby /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0 /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.3/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.0/ universal-darwin9.0
It looks like /System/Library/Frameworks/ is not in my search path. The questions are why not? how do I remedy this? and will doing so make it work? Even more thanks, Bob Schaaf