# Problem with foxGUIb

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-foxguib/151822>\
**Category:** FXRuby\
**Created:** [October 26, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-foxguib/151822 "2008-10-26T10:57:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-foxguib/151822/1 "2008-10-26T10:57:41Z")

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Hi.

I’m learning Ruby,m and I’m having a little problem.

Some days ago, I searched a GUI Builder to construct GUIs to my first  
scripts, and founded foxGUIb.

In my Office (on a Windows XP 64bits box), I installed libGUIb without  
troubles, and foxGUIb, was launched ok.

At home (Macbook), libGUIB, seems to be installed, but foxGUIb, gives me  
this output when try to launch.

galilea:foxGUIb glpunzi$ ruby foxGUIb.rb  
no such file to load – libGUIb16

Possible causes of this error are:

- libGUIb is not installed
- fxruby is not installed
- fxruby gem could not be loaded because you did not start ruby with -  
rubygems option
- other unexpected error. please check the following backtrace to find  
the cause of the error.

/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
foxGUIb.rb:11

I tried to install again libGUIb, but all seems ok.

galilea:libGUIb glpunzi$ sudo ruby install.rb  
Password:  
parsearg\_config  
install.rb: entering config phase…  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
install.rb: config done.  
parsearg\_setup  
install.rb: entering setup phase…  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
install.rb: setup done.  
parsearg\_install  
parsearg\_install!!! ARGV:  
install.rb: entering install phase…  
—\> lib  
mkdir -p /  
install libGUIb14.rb /  
install libGUIb16.rb /  
\<— lib  
install.rb: install done.

I tried to start fxri to see if was a problem with Fox, but started  
fine.

galilea:foxGUIb glpunzi$ gem list fxruby

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

fxruby (1.6.16)

A friend, told me he as the same problem, but he wrote  
require “rubygems”

at the first lines in the script and worked, but this don’t works for me

Some idea?

Thanks in advance.

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-foxguib/151822/2 "2009-09-26T13:02:26Z")

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I run Linux at home too and a version or two previous i DID get foxGUIb  
running don’t ask me how - I’ve forgotten ☹

anyhow i have on my latest updated \*nix installed foxGUIb but to date  
haven’t got it working. Remembered that i needed the foxGUI files in the  
path so put them in the /usr/… dome directories down but that still  
failed.

What i ended up doing was installing windows under virtualbox and alls  
is well.

regards,

Dave.

Giuseppe luigi Punzi ruiz wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I’m learning Ruby,m and I’m having a little problem.
> 
> Some days ago, I searched a GUI Builder to construct GUIs to my first  
> scripts, and founded foxGUIb.
> 
> In my Office (on a Windows XP 64bits box), I installed libGUIb without  
> troubles, and foxGUIb, was launched ok.
> 
> At home (Macbook), libGUIB, seems to be installed, but foxGUIb, gives me  
> this output when try to launch.
> 
> galilea:foxGUIb glpunzi$ ruby foxGUIb.rb  
> no such file to load – libGUIb16
> 
> Possible causes of this error are:
> 
> - libGUIb is not installed
> - fxruby is not installed
> - fxruby gem could not be loaded because you did not start ruby with -  
> rubygems option
> - other unexpected error. please check the following backtrace to find  
> the cause of the error.
> 
> /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
> `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
> foxGUIb.rb:11
> 
> I tried to install again libGUIb, but all seems ok.
> 
> galilea:libGUIb glpunzi$ sudo ruby install.rb  
> Password:  
> parsearg\_config  
> install.rb: entering config phase…  
> —\> lib  
> \<— lib  
> install.rb: config done.  
> parsearg\_setup  
> install.rb: entering setup phase…  
> —\> lib  
> \<— lib  
> install.rb: setup done.  
> parsearg\_install  
> parsearg\_install!!! ARGV:  
> install.rb: entering install phase…  
> —\> lib  
> mkdir -p /  
> install libGUIb14.rb /  
> install libGUIb16.rb /  
> \<— lib  
> install.rb: install done.
> 
> I tried to start fxri to see if was a problem with Fox, but started  
> fine.
> 
> galilea:foxGUIb glpunzi$ gem list fxruby
> 
> \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*
> 
> fxruby (1.6.16)
> 
> A friend, told me he as the same problem, but he wrote  
> require “rubygems”
> 
> at the first lines in the script and worked, but this don’t works for me
> 
> Some idea?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-foxguib/151822/3 "2009-11-11T21:01:57Z")

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The installer works for me on Linux, producing the output below. You can  
see the two libGUIb files are copied to Ruby’s site\_ruby/1.8 directory.  
These two files are in the lib directory. Your output shows them being  
copied to the wrong location, the root of the filesystem(/).

If you run IRB and type $:, you’ll get an idea of the paths Ruby  
searches to find libraries. Mine looks like this:  
irb(main):001:0\> $:  
=\> ["/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8",  
“/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,  
“/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby”,  
“/usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8”,  
“/usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/i486-linux”, “/usr/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby”,  
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8”, “/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux”,  
“/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux”, “.”]

…so those files end up in that first location and everything works. You  
just need to copy them to one of those locations on your system.  
Obviously the installer program is not looking up that path correctly.

My output:

lesliev@lesliev-laptop:~/data/bin/foxGUIb\_1.0.0/libGUIb$ ruby install.rb  
parsearg\_config  
install.rb: entering config phase…  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
install.rb: config done.  
parsearg\_setup  
install.rb: entering setup phase…  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
install.rb: setup done.  
parsearg\_install  
parsearg\_install!!! ARGV:  
install.rb: entering install phase…  
—\> lib  
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install libGUIb16.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
install libGUIb14.rb /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/  
\<— lib  
install.rb: install done.