From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T08:25:07+09:00
Subject: Re: verify installation

On 9 mayo, 17:45, marcoa <m...@rwdi.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)
>

I'll suggest you revisit the Watir dependencies.

based on the backtrace, it seems Watir is using latest windows-pr
version, dunno if was planned to run with it or any other specific
version.

I ran into similar problems for mongrel_service and win32-service
dependency. I suggest you look into that before.

You can ask anyone in the Watir list give you a list of gems and
versions related to win32utils project (both windows-pr and win32-
process gems)

Also, will be helpful know the version of Windows you're using (XP or
Vista in 32 or 64bits versions).

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena