# My First Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 16, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569 "2010-10-16T05:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/85f322/32.png) [@okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/okkezSS)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/1 "2010-10-16T05:47:31Z")
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`’ 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’. ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/2 "2010-10-16T09:58:47Z")
On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Travis T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > require ‘reve’ > api = Reve::API.new(‘my\_userid’,‘my\_apikey’) > api.characters.each do |character| > puts character.name > end require “rubygems” Before reve and it should load. ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/3 "2010-10-16T10:14:34Z")
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > require “rubygems” > > Before reve and it should load. rubygems should required by default under 1.9, what the OP seems to be using. There’s probably something else going wrong here. Regards, Ammar ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/4 "2010-10-16T10:50:26Z")
Travis T. wrote in post #954723: > 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’ > … > > Clearly, I’ve done something wrong in installing this gem. I think it’s a problem with the gem itself. It’s looking for a file C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/reve-0.0.131/VERSION and can’t find it. Some gems are not compatible with ruby 1.9.x, and some are not compatible with Windows. [http://www.crudvision.com/reve-ruby-eve-online-api-library/](http://www.crudvision.com/reve-ruby-eve-online-api-library/) was last updated July 2007, although the ChangeLog in SVN has an entry from 2008-01-13. So maybe it falls into the “needs modification to work with 1.9” camp. If you’re “crashing into Ruby”, this is as good a place to start as any 🙂 Start at reve.rb line 136, work out what it’s doing, fix it. Maybe for now just create the VERSION file that it’s looking for. Having said that, looking in Subversion I don’t see any attempt to open VERSION, so maybe this has been fixed already, and you just need to build a more up-to-date gem (or install directly from SVN). [http://svn.crudvision.com/reve/trunk/lib/reve.rb](http://svn.crudvision.com/reve/trunk/lib/reve.rb) But also, maybe the repo has moved - that one shows revision r117, but your gem claims to be r131. Maybe it’s somebody else’ fork. ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/5 "2010-10-16T22:29:16Z")
Wow, thank you guys for the support. As I said, I’m used to Perl, so I’m used to… less than warm responses. I did dig around in the reve.rb. But fixing that line, just uncovered another problem and another. I decided to try one of the other two packages. I was able to get eve-api to work with only two edits to the code. I just thought I was installing them wrong or something. ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 9:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/6 "2010-10-18T09:13:29Z")
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Josh C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I let her know that the VERSION file wasn’t getting into the gem, and she fixed it and pushed up version 0.0.132 ---
**Author:** ![trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@trav281](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trav281)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-first-time/197569/7 "2010-10-17T00:10:54Z")
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Brian C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Travis T. wrote in post #954723: > [http://www.crudvision.com/reve-ruby-eve-online-api-library/](http://www.crudvision.com/reve-ruby-eve-online-api-library/) was last > updated July 2007, although the ChangeLog in SVN has an entry from > 2008-01-13. So maybe it falls into the “needs modification to work with > 1.9” camp. The one on github ([GitHub - lisa/reve: Reve is a Ruby-based library for use with interfacing with the Eve Online API.](http://github.com/lisa/reve) the one linked to by rubygems) was updated on the third, and has a 1300 line test file. It looks like she added the version thing to the code on August 22 [Add a version to Reve, reading from ./VERSION. (Now to remember to up… · lisa/reve@1254c3c · GitHub](http://github.com/lisa/reve/commit/1254c3ce2f20ee17126b7ddbca2381dcc0d1cfe1) For whatever reason it doesn’t download the VERSION file with the gem install command. I don’t know why, it looks like it is in what I assume is the manifest (I’ve never successfully made a gem, so not experienced enough to say) > > If the eve gem doesn’t work out, reve might be worth another look. Might even be able to bug them to help you 🙂 She would probably enjoy that someone is interested in their work more than be annoyed that they have to explain it. Anyway, I don’t think she is on 1.9.2, because there are a few places she uses relative paths, but I ran the test file ( [reve/test/test\_reve.rb at master · lisa/reve · GitHub](http://github.com/lisa/reve/blob/master/test/test_reve.rb)), and they all basically passed.