From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-03-17T10:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby crashes with mshtml.dll

On Mar 16, 9:53 pm, Paservan NO <zero_human...@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Ruby 1.9.2.180 and it crashes several time with same error message
> from event viewer. It comes and goes without any pattern and I have no
> specific re-produced steps. It seems to be related to "mshtml.dll". I
> checked event viewer, and it say:
>
>   Faulting application ruby.exe, version 1.9.2.180, faulting module
> mshtml.dll, version 8.0.6001.18702, fault address 0x0025ee8e.
>
> I use watir to do web UI testing. I googled "mshtml.dll" and it is used
> to handle IE layout. I try to use watir 1.8.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.7 and
> ruby.exe still crashes with the same error message.
>
> any idea?
>

From water installation page:

http://watir.com/installation/

"Windows
Install Ruby
We recommend using Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7 on all platforms.

Download and install the latest version of Ruby from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads
Note: Ruby 1.9.x does not work out-of-the-box with Watir, sorry."


Please try Ruby 1.8.7 and let us know.

--
Luis Lavena