From: marcoa <ma@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T05:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: verify installation

On May 9, 4:14 pm, Justin Collins <justincoll...@ucla.edu> wrote:
> 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- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Ok good to know. I have posted in the watir group but someone there
suggested verifying my ruby installation by running some canned unit
tests or something and that is why I came over to this group to find
out how to verify an installation. Once verified I will have reason to
isolate the discussion to watir ;)

Marco