From: Bret Pettichord <bret@...>
Date: 2010-10-23T01:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: cannot load watir

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There is an environment variable that automatically loads rubygems.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 22, 12:03 pm, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > as you can see, i have the watir gem installed but cannot load it in
> > irb. dont know how to troubleshoot this.
> >
> > U:\>irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'watir'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- watir
> >         from (irb):1:in `require'
> >         from (irb):1
> > irb(main):002:0> exit
> >
> > U:\>gem list --local watir
> >
> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> >
> > watir (1.6.6)
> >
> > U:\>ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32]
> >
> > U:\>irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'watir'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- watir
> >         from (irb):1:in `require'
> >         from (irb):1
> > irb(main):002:0>
>
> i made it to work by loading rubygems first.
>
> U:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'watir'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- watir
>        from (irb):1:in `require'
>        from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> require 'watir'
> => true
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>
> However, i never had to load rubygems before. the script i am running
> was working before i reimaged my machine and reloaded ruby. what did i
> miss in my install that i have to require 'rubygems' now.
>
>


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