From: Travis Tslib <travis.garris@...>
Date: 2010-10-16T12:47:33+09:00
Subject: My First Time

I have Perl and PHP experience.  I love the idea of true OO and wanted
to give Ruby a try.  I expect gem to work like cpan and pear.

I want to use a very simple API to get data and dump into a local
database.  I have Windows XP SP 3.  I installed Ruby 1.9.2 and Eclipse
and the DLT for Ruby (I've also installed MySQL, but I haven't gotten
that far, yet).

There are three different gems out there that I could use.  I'm trying
'reve'.  It required 'hpricot'.

That too two hours just to get 'gem install hpricot' to work.  I finally
got some sort of Ruby DevKit installed, and hpricot installed and so did
reve, without error.

Now, when I try


require 'reve'
api = Reve::API.new('my_userid','my_apikey')
api.characters.each do |character|
  puts character.name
end


I get



C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/reve-0.0.131/lib/reve.rb:136:in
`read': No such file or directory -
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/reve-0.0.131/lib/../VERSION
(Errno::ENOENT)
  from
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/reve-0.0.131/lib/reve.rb:136:in
`initialize'
  from C:/Documents and Settings/Travis/workspace/ODNDT Transaction
Farmer/test1.rb:5:in `new'
  from C:/Documents and Settings/Travis/workspace/ODNDT Transaction
Farmer/test1.rb:5:in `<main>'



Clearly, I've done something wrong in installing this gem.

Like I said, I'm completely new to Ruby.  Yes, there is probably
something I could read somewhere, but I haven't found it today.  I
understand that I'm crashing into Ruby, but... I don't want to do 'hello
world'.

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