Ruby Scripts - Reference Gems - ruby

Question

I am writing my first ruby script and am curious how to actually have gem referenced in the script. I am unable to test the code before hand because it reads form an email in /etc/aliases through a pipe.
Any one one with experiences with ruby scripts to advise?
P.S So many bugs because not tested or refactored
Sample Script
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Reading files
mail = File.open(ARGV[0])
lines = []
mail.each_with_index do |i,line|
line[i] = lines.#remove leading and trailing spaces
end
first_line = line[1].strip
if line[1] /^(256)/
phone_number = first_line.gsub("+", "")
else
phone_number = "256#{first_line.gsub(/^0+/,"")}"
end
message = line[2].strip
# Sending message
url = "http://xxxxxxxxxxx.com/api/v2/json/messages?token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&to=#{phone_number}&from=XXXXXX&message=#{CGI.escape(message)}"
5.times do |i|
response = HTTParty.get(url)
body = JSON.parse(response.body)
if body["status"] == "Success"
break
end
end
Gems in question are CGI, Httparty, and Json parsing.

Answer 1

Using external gems can be done by calling the "require" method.
So to include them in your script, the first few lines could be something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "json"
require "cgi"
require "httparty"
#rest of your code...
I assume you have installed your gems with gem install <gemname>?