From: Gawnsoft Date: 2003-08-31T12:24:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Beginning to use FxRuby - help, please On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:34:38 -0500, Lyle Johnson wrote (more or less): >Gawnsoft wrote: > >>>If it is, what do you get when you print the >>>contents of Ruby's library path from irb: >>> >>> irb> $: >> >> >> ["/cygdrive/d/PROGRAMS/CODING/RUBY/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin", >> "/cygdrive/d/PROGRAMS/CODING/RUBY/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6", >> "/cygdrive/d/PROGRAMS/CODING/RUBY/lib/ruby/site_ruby", >> "/cygdrive/d/PROGRAMS/CODING/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin", >> "/cygdrive/d/PROGRAMS/CODING/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.6", "."] >> >> Thanks for your help.. > >OK. You apparently have a an older, Cygwin-based installation of Ruby >that is taking precedence over the Pragmatic Programmer's Ruby installer >(which is based on Visual C++). This is obvious from the paths listed in >Ruby's "$:" library path; it's showing "i386-cygwin" as the platform >instead of "i586-mswin32". > >I'm not sure how you got into this situation, or what is the best way to >fix it. If there is no entry in the "Add/Remove Programs" list for >Windows, you may need to manually uninstall Ruby (i.e. delete the >D:\Programs\Coding\Ruby directory completely) and then re-install using >the Pragmatic Programmers' installer. Yes - it's (one of the) last of the Cygwin versions of the PragProg installers that I've been using. (1.6.4-2). Time to move up to MSVC technology at a guess, then! Perhaps a warning of oldest usable versions of the Windows installation could be placed in the readme.txt and the installation notes files. I'd write the update, but I'm not quite sure what the exact restriction is... Thanks again Lyle - I'll clear out the old install and get a new one and try again. Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk