From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T19:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob has trouble with io/wait on Windows

Larry Edelstein asked...
> I'm trying to use the "io/wait" library (using "require 'io/wait'") but
> the interpreter won't load it.
>
> I'm a dang newbie and I've just installed the 1.8.2 one-click package on
> Windows.        Do I need to do something special to enable this
> package?  The error I get is like so:
>
> D:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
> `require__': No such file to load -- io/wait (LoadError)

io/wait is one of the POSIX-based functions (along with fork, etc.) that 
doesn't work on Windows (yet).

The win32utils library win32-process available from RubyForge provides a 
replacement:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/

Cheers,
Dave