I have installed yajl, libyajl-dev, and the yajl-ruby gem on a ubuntu 10.04 installation.
I added the gem to a 2.3.8 ruby on rails installation since the release notes for 2.3.6 indicated that yajl would be used if present in the system. Rails bails with an error message along the lines of 'unable to load yajl-ruby' so I thought I would see what is happening in an irb session. This is what happens:
$ dpkg -l | grep yajl
ii libyajl-dev 1.0.8-1 Yet Another JSON Library - development files
ii libyajl1 1.0.8-1 Yet Another JSON Library
ii yajl-tools 1.0.8-1 Yet Another JSON Library - tools
$ gem list | grep yajl
yajl-ruby (0.7.6)
$ irb
> require 'yajl'
LoadError: no such file to load -- yajl
from (irb):1:in `require'
from (irb):1
from :0
> require 'yajl/gzip'
LoadError: no such file to load -- yajl/gzip
from (irb):2:in `require'
from (irb):2
from :0
> require 'yajl-ruby'
LoadError: no such file to load -- yajl-ruby
from (irb):3:in `require'
from (irb):3
from :0
I cannot find anyone else with this problem after spending a while searching for this issue. Anyone have any idea what is going on?