From: Michael W Ryder <data@...>
Date: 2010-05-28T09:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: permissions problem when running Ruby

Bev Bev wrote:
> I am having a permissions problem which no one else on the developement
> team is having and no one knows how to fix it. I had talked with the IT
> department and they checked a couple of things and said it was not a
> standard Windows NTFS permissions error and they felt that it was an
> application permission issue.
> 
> I am new to Ruby, so I do not know much.
> 
> I have a dirctory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\bin which has the script
> login.rb. I have another directory c:\Workspaces\Watir
> Testing\test_scripts which has the script CustomerSetup1.rb.
> 
> The CustomerSetup1.rb script is the one I need to run to run the test
> and it calls the login.rb script.
> 
> When I go to the directory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\test_scripts and
> type "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby -l ..\bin CustomerSetup1.rb", I get the following
> message "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby: Permission denied -- ../bin (LoadError)".
> 
> I don't understand why I don't have permissions to access a directory on
> my PC.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bev

If you are using Vista or newer you might want to turn UAC off to see if 
that fixes the problem.  I had problems with UAC not allowing a program 
to make changes to files and finally just turned it off rather than try 
to figure out exactly what it needed.