From: Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T03:09:35+09:00
Subject: Re: wxRuby 1.9.4

On [Thu, 06.03.2008 01:09], newbie wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> I was trying to follow the instruction on wxruby page to install it
> and play with the sample programs. But still couldn't get it right.
> Can you please shed some light?
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> First, I installed wxruby gem by "gem install wxruby"
> 
> The message was as follows.
> 
>  Updating metadata for 11 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
>  ...........
>  complete
>  Successfully installed wxruby-1.9.4-x86-mswin32
>  1 gem installed
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Second, I was trying to run the sample "minimal.rb" program in "C:\ruby
> \lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wxruby-1.9.4-x86-mswin32\samples\minimal" by
> the following command.
> 
>  ruby C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wxruby-1.9.4-x86-mswin32\samples
> \minimal\minimal.rb
> 
> The error message was:
> 
>  C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.4-x86-mswin32/samples/
> minimal/minimal.rb:10:in `load':
>  no such file to load -- wx (LoadError)
>         from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.4-x86-mswin32/
> samples/minimal/minimal.rb:10
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> The web site says I should have "require 'rubygems'". I added it as
> the first line in the program. But it still didn't work and showed the
> following error message.
> 
>  minimal.rb:11:in `load': no such file to load -- wx (LoadError)
>         from minimal.rb:11
> 
> Please kindly let me know what was wrong... Thanks very much!
> 
> My environment:
> 
> * Windows XP
> * Ruby 1.8.6
> * Gem 0.9.5
> * Wxruby: 1.9.4.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------

Replace the line "load 'wx'" with "require 'wx'" and it should work. Its somewhere at the top.

-- 
Dominik Honnef