From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-05-19T05:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: WET/RubyGems won't work

On May 18, 2:51 am, Jeff Vv <lordren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having problems getting WET (rubygem: wet-winobj) to work. My main
> problem is that it just can't seem to find its own files. For example,
> if I do:
>
> gem 'wet-winobj'
> require 'wet/winobjects/AppWindow.rb'
>
> It then returns:
>
> >ruby BringToFront.rb
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file to load --
> wet/winobjects/AppWindow.rb (LoadError)
>   from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>   from BringToFront.rb:2
>
> >Exit code: 1
>
> If I put in the direct path, as in:
>
> gem 'wet-winobj'
> require
> 'C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wet-winobj-0.1-mswin32\src\wet\winobjects\AppWindow.rb'
>
> It returns:
>
> >ruby BringToFront.rb
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- wet/winobjects/Window.rb
> (LoadError)
>   from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>   from
> C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\wet-winobj-0.1-mswin32\src\wet\winobjects\AppWindow.rb:16
>   from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
>   from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `require'
>   from BringToFront.rb:2
>
> >Exit code: 1
>
> Meaning that the file that I now successfully found can't find
> everything else that it's trying to include...which just so happen to be
> in the first format, wet/winobjects/file.rb. The odd thing about this is
> that some other ruby gems seem to work flawlessly. For example, I can
> run ProgressBar perfectly with just:
>
> gem 'progressbar'
> require 'progressbar.rb'
>
> And it won't whine. Heck, I didn't even need to give it any directory
> names.
>
> So you know, putting in require 'rubygems' doesn't work, as Windows is
> already set up to use them automatically. Further, truncating the second
> part to find AppWindow.rb doesn't seem to work. But even if they did, I
> would need a fix so that the files that AppWindow wants to require can
> be found. Is there any way to do this without modifying AppWindow.rb?
>

What you're experiencing is a bad gem specification.

for 'wet/something' to work on a require, 'src' directory must be
included so rubygems can lookup for it.

The gem author need to 'require_path' 'src' in his Gem::Specification
to make the rubygems require lookup functionality work.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena