From: marcoa <ma@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T04:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: verify installation

On May 9, 2:03 pm, Justin Collins <justincoll...@ucla.edu> wrote:
> marcoa wrote:
> > Is there a way to verify the installation of Ruby
> > I have downloaded and installed "182-15 stable" and then installed the
> > watir gem (gem install watir) taken all the defualt dependencies.
> > I am having a problem with executing the require 'watir' statement so
> > I want to ensure my ruby install is good.
>
> > Thanks to all
>
> > Marco
>
> When you use gems, you have to require RubyGems somehow anytime you want
> to use something installed as a gem.
>
> Try:
>
> require "rubygems"
> require "watir"
>
> -Justin

I did as suggested. See transcript below. Notice the return of "false"
after the require rubygems. I did a "update_rubygems" and it reports
that rubygems is already installed. Weird??

C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> false
irb(main):002:0> require 'watir'
Windows::API::Error: #<Windows::API::Error:0x2b08310>
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-api-0.2.3/lib/
windows/api.rb:331:in `initialize'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/
windows/window.rb:40:in `new'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/
windows/window.rb:40
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.5.8/lib/
win32/process.rb:8
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir/ie-
process.rb:1
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir.rb:47
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require__'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in `require'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:175:in
`activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
23:in `require'
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>