From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-06T02:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby watir on Win2008R2

On Aug 5, 1:15 pm, debuke <deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> we are running our scripts fine on windows server 2003 (standard) and
> we are moving to windows server 2008R2 (standard).
>
> we are using ruby 1.8.6, rubygems 1.3.4 with the following gems:
>
> activesupport (2.3.2, 2.2.2)
> archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
> builder (2.1.2)
> color (1.4.0)
> commonwatir (1.6.2)
> diff-lcs (1.1.2)
> etc (0.2.0)
> firewatir (1.6.2)
> fxri (0.3.6)
> fxruby (1.6.19, 1.6.12)
> hoe (1.8.2)
> hpricot (0.6.164)
> pdf-reader (0.7.5)
> pdf-toolkit (0.49)
> pdf-writer (1.1.8)
> rake (0.8.7, 0.8.4)
> rspec (1.1.11)
> rubyforge (1.0.4, 1.0.3)
> rubyzip (0.9.1)
> s4t-utils (1.0.4)
> safariwatir (0.3.7)
> transaction-simple (1.4.0)
> user-choices (1.1.6)
> watir (1.6.2)
> win32-api (1.4.0)
> win32-clipboard (0.4.3)
> win32-dir (0.3.2)
> win32-eventlog (0.4.6)
> win32-process (0.6.0)
> windows-api (0.3.0)
> windows-pr (1.0.2)
> xml-simple (1.0.12)
>
> the error is occurring right at the start of our script and is:
>
> C:\RgnScripts\AutomationTestScripts\RegressionTestCases>ruby
> MaintMenu.rb
> MaintMenu.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- watir (LoadError)
>         from MaintMenu.rb:1
>
> setting RUBYOPT doesn't seem to help either... :(
>

setting to RUBYOPT=rubygems ?

what this produces?

ruby -rubygems -ve "require 'watir'"

> note: i reiterate: the scripts work fine on 2003... :(
>

It works because it has something installed that this new 2008 machine
doesn't.

We need to understand were the difference lies.

Unless you copied the whole Ruby folder and machine registry it will
not be the same.

--
Luis Lavena