From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T12:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to download FXRuby library; where to put it; RUBYLIB, RUBYPATH env. vars

If you're on Windows (as it looks like you are), then you can just use the
one-click prag-prog installer which will take care of all of the setup for
you (Fox and FXRuby included).

For the one-click installer you could go to
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

-Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Lionheart" <NoOne@Nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:20 PM
Subject: Where to download FXRuby library; where to put it; RUBYLIB,
RUBYPATH env. vars


> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting to do some GUI using Hal Fulton's excellent intro to
> FXRuby in "The Ruby Way".  His first example worked "out of the box."
(I'm
> running ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]).  The example required
"fox"
> and included Fox,  but I don't see "fox.rb" anywhere in my Ruby
> installation -- only a couple of Fox folders.  So what satisfied these
> require/include statements?
>
> Second,  I ran the next example,  which in addition to the fox stuff,
> required/included "responder"/Responder.  That barfed until I added a
fully
> qualified path to the RUBYLIB env. var.,  whereupon the dark clouds
> dissipated and the sun shone through.  If Ruby found Fox in the prev.
> example,  why couldn't it find responder.rb in the Fox folder without the
> assistance of RUBLIB, suitably initialized?
>
> Third,  I've got the fully qualifed path to Ruby/lib in the RUBYLIB var.
> also.  That's probably redudant,  isn't it?  Ruby seems to find stuff in
> Ruby/lib without that entry in RUBYLIB.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Richad
>
>
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