From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-09-04T00:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

Bon Sid wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5605&group_id=1177&atid=4626
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dan
>
> Hi
>
> I have just discovered ruby and was interested to see what its
> mathematical capabilities were, and also being mainly a Windows XP user,
> i decided to setup using the one-click installer.
>
> I have placed the narray.so in the C:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32
> directory
> and have tried running a mandelbrot sample that i found here
> http://narray.rubyforge.org/demo/mandel.html.en.
>
> Cut/Copy the example into the RDE i get the follewing error,
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32/narray.so: no such file to load --
> narray_ext.rb (LoadError)
> 	from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
> 	from C:/Documents and Settings/Boz/Desktop/mand.rb:1
> Completed(1)

It seems that the narray package also comes with some pure Ruby libs as
well.  You'll need to download the tarball and install those.

Regards,

Dan