From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T05:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: verify installation

marcoa wrote:
> 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>
>
>
>   

The false return value is typical for RubyGems and nothing to worry 
about. I would suggest looking for help from Watir's community.

-Justin