From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2008-09-06T02:36:49+09:00
Subject: Re: how to search a website

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
>> http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/
>
> I download gems for both "mechanize" and "hoe" but still have problems
> installing them. I am not sure what is going on.
>
> ######################################
> Here are the info I get:
>
>
> C:\ruby\gem_download>gem install  mechanize-0.7.8.gem --local
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>    Error instaling mechanize-0.7.8.gem:
>        mechanize requires hoe >= 1.7.0
>
> C:\ruby\gem_download>gem install hoe-1.7.0.gem --local
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>    Error instaling hoe-1.7.0.gem:
>        hoe requires rubyforge >= 1.0.0

If you are downloading the gems to install locally, you also need to
download the rubyforge gem.  I'm not sure off-hand what the official
download location is for it.  Did you/can you try:

        gem install mechanize

to automatically download the dependencies for you?