# Fxri - gems - fxruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 12, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290 "2006-01-12T16:12:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilivor)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290/1 "2006-01-12T16:12:52Z")

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I am using Ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] on Windows XP.

fxri working perfectly before installing Fxruby. Then, after installing,  
stops working:

Am I missing something? The output follows.

Thanks a lot.

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E:\Ruby\>gem install fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32.gem

E:\Ruby\>“e:\Ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “e:\Ruby\bin\gem” install  
fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32.ge  
m  
Attempting local installation of ‘fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32.gem’  
Successfully installed fxruby, version 1.4.2  
Installing RDoc documentation for fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32…

E:\Ruby\>E:\Ruby\bin\fxri.cmd

E:\Ruby\>“e:\Ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “e:\Ruby\bin\fxri”  
e:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:144:in `activate': can't activate fxr uby (= 1.2.6), already activated fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32] (Gem::Exception) from e:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:23:in`re  
quire’  
from e:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxri-0.3.2/./fxri:10  
from e:/Ruby/bin/fxri:19:in `load’  
from e:/Ruby/bin/fxri:19

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**Author:** ![kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilivor)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290/2 "2006-01-12T19:59:36Z")

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Kilivor K. schrieb:

> I am using Ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] on Windows XP.
> 
> fxri working perfectly before installing Fxruby. Then, after  
> installing, stops working:
> 
> …
> 
> E:\Ruby\>gem install fxruby-1.4.2-mswin32.gem

I had this problem in the past too. The installed fxri needs fxruby  
1.2.x. You have two options:

1. Remove fxruby 1.4.x and (re-)install fxruby 1.2.6. fxri does not work  
if both versions are installed!

2. Manually patch the gemspec file for fxri. Edit  
\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\specifications\fxri-0.3.2.gemspec

with a text editor. Near the end change the line

```
s.add_dependency(%q<fxruby>, [">= 1.2.0"])

```

to

```
s.add_dependency(%q<fxruby>, [">= 1.2.0", "< 1.3"])

```

After this, fxri works with the previously installed fxruby 1.2.x and  
ignores newer versions.

Be aware that the FreeRide which is included in the One-click-installer  
does depend on fxruby 1.2.x too. For freeride to work again you would  
have to change several files in  
\freeride\freebase\lib\freebase. I haven’t done or  
checked this as I don’t use freeride.

Holger

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**Author:** ![kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilivor)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290/3 "2006-01-12T21:42:44Z")

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On 1/12/06, Holger A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I had this problem in the past too. The installed fxri needs fxruby  
> 1.2.x. You have two options:

FWIW, I just sent an e-mail to Martin Ankerl (the author of fxri) to  
see what’s up with this. This is a known problem that a lot of people  
have run into, and I don’t know if it’s going to be fixed or not…

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**Author:** ![kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kilivor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kilivor)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxri-gems-fxruby/52290/4 "2006-01-12T23:33:15Z")

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Holger A. wrote:

> After this, fxri works with the previously installed fxruby 1.2.x and  
> ignores newer versions.
> 
> Be aware that the FreeRide which is included in the One-click-installer  
> does depend on fxruby 1.2.x too. For freeride to work again you would  
> have to change several files in  
> \freeride\freebase\lib\freebase. I haven’t done or  
> checked this as I don’t use freeride.

Thanks Holger! fxri working again! About FreeRide I neither use it, so  
for now it is no prob (using Eclipse).