LoadError (cannot load such file -- rexml/xpath_parser)

[PaulBabka]

Thanks for this GEM.

Code has been running fine for years, but when I recently upgraded my app to Ruby 3.2.2 and this GEM to 2.0.2, I ran into the above error in some use cases.

I half-assed solved this error by simply adding REXML to my Gemfile, but should not have needed to.

gem 'rexml'

I don't think this is a QUICKBOOKS-RUBY issue per-say, so feel free to close this issue, but it might help someone else.

# Sample code causing the above error
Quickbooks::Service::Vendor.new(company_id: 'SOME COMPANY ID', access_token: 'SOME ACCESS TOKEN').find_by(:display_name, 'SOME VENDOR')

REXML should have been included by default (ROXML GEM requirement), but for some reason, its not available (at least for me).

Cheers

[kluzny]

This just happened to me as well on ruby 3.0.5p211 (2022-11-24 revision ba5cf0f7c5) [x86_64-linux]

Curiously, I only see this on recent docker image builds. I suspect the rexml is sitting at 3.2.5 in my gemfile due to development dependencies that may be more up to date.

I suspect that the only difference is that including it in the gemfile directly calls 'require'. I can do a bit more research in a day or two, but I suspect that explicitly requiring this in the code paths that are using this gem might be a more concise solution.

For me, this didn't happen during the grant/callback process but during customer creation, likely when it was juggling all that xml.