Undefined method `api_key=' for OpenAI:Module (NoMethodError)

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Hi

I am new to Open AI and want to create a simple prototype of a RoR application which runs a generative chatbot. I have created my web app and have imported the
gem ‘openai’ in my Gemfile. I have also created an initializer and set it with my API key thus.

OpenAI.api_key = ENV[‘my-key’]

However, when I try to do a dev start, I get the following error:

undefined method `api_key=’ for OpenAI:Module (NoMethodError)

I have tried running bundle install multiple times but it does not fix the issue.

Any help will be much appreciated!

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Which library are you using? There are two listed by openAI for ruby are:

In case of both of them you need to create an instance of OpenAI::Client passing API key as constructor argument.

For the first one nileshtrivedi/openai:

client = OpenAI::Client.new(api_key: ENV["OPENAI_API_KEY"])

And for the second alexrudall/ruby-openai:

client = OpenAI::Client.new(access_token: ENV["OPENAI_API_KEY"])
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Hey Walaszczykm,

Thanks for your answer :blush:

I am trying with the second one, and it gives me the following message:

`initialize': missing keyword: api_key (ArgumentError)

and when I try replacing access_token with api_key, I have the following message:

undefined method `transcribe' for #<OpenAI::Client:0x00007f8d7e98ac70> (NoMethodError)

Any idea why it behaves this way :question:

Thank you in advance

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‘::Ruby::OpenAI’ module is removed. Please add this ‘OpenAI’
change all references from Ruby::OpenAI to OpenAI .