From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-07-20T08:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Rich Leblanc <rl001@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Roger Pack wrote:
>> This means your ruby was built without the tk extension built.
>>
>> Useful refs:
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/GUI_Toolkit_Modules/Tk
>> http://wiki.github.com/rdp/ruby_tutorials_core/tk (availability).
>> Cheers.
>> -r
>
> Yes I know, but why not? Neither of those links was helpful.

How did you install Ruby? Using RubyInstaller? That doesn't include Tk
(because, as I understand it, it's currently impossible to
automatically build and package Tk along with it).

Assuming you installed Tk, you can compile a gem called tk_as_gem that
will work with your existing Tk installation. You'll need the Ruby
development kit (MSys tools, available from http://rubyinstaller.org/)
to compile it.