# Ruby watir on Win2008R2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747 "2010-08-04T22:17:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/debuke)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747/1 "2010-08-04T22:17:02Z")

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is this possible? i’m running in to LoadErrors and i’ve done all of  
the things that are suppose to get around this problem…

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**Author:** ![debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/debuke)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747/2 "2010-08-05T00:32:51Z")

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On Aug 4, 5:10 pm, debuke [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> is this possible? i’m running in to LoadErrors and i’ve done all of  
> the things that are suppose to get around this problem…

Please post the exact error you’re getting, with backtraces and  
everything.

Include your installation steps and the more information as is  
possible to you.

Help us help you.

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**Author:** ![debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/debuke)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747/3 "2010-08-05T18:21:16Z")

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we are running our scripts fine on windows server 2003 (standard) and  
we are moving to windows server 2008R2 (standard).

we are using ruby 1.8.6, rubygems 1.3.4 with the following gems:

activesupport (2.3.2, 2.2.2)  
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)  
builder (2.1.2)  
color (1.4.0)  
commonwatir (1.6.2)  
diff-lcs (1.1.2)  
etc (0.2.0)  
firewatir (1.6.2)  
fxri (0.3.6)  
fxruby (1.6.19, 1.6.12)  
hoe (1.8.2)  
hpricot (0.6.164)  
pdf-reader (0.7.5)  
pdf-toolkit (0.49)  
pdf-writer (1.1.8)  
rake (0.8.7, 0.8.4)  
rspec (1.1.11)  
rubyforge (1.0.4, 1.0.3)  
rubyzip (0.9.1)  
s4t-utils (1.0.4)  
safariwatir (0.3.7)  
transaction-simple (1.4.0)  
user-choices (1.1.6)  
watir (1.6.2)  
win32-api (1.4.0)  
win32-clipboard (0.4.3)  
win32-dir (0.3.2)  
win32-eventlog (0.4.6)  
win32-process (0.6.0)  
windows-api (0.3.0)  
windows-pr (1.0.2)  
xml-simple (1.0.12)

the error is occurring right at the start of our script and is:

C:\RgnScripts\AutomationTestScripts\RegressionTestCases\>ruby  
MaintMenu.rb  
MaintMenu.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load – watir (LoadError)  
from MaintMenu.rb:1

setting RUBYOPT doesn’t seem to help either… ☹

note: i reiterate: the scripts work fine on 2003… ☹

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**Author:** ![debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/debuke)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747/4 "2010-08-05T20:10:48Z")

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well… to answer my own question… YES: ruby with watir is possible  
on 2008R2…

turns out, we had a developer who made modifications to the ruby  
scripts without me knowing it. once i applied those scripts all is  
well…

sorry for the wasted time but thx for the help!

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**Author:** ![debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@debuke](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/debuke)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-watir-on-win2008r2/192747/5 "2010-08-05T19:20:26Z")

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On Aug 5, 1:15 pm, debuke [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> diff-lcs (1.1.2)  
> rspec (1.1.11)  
> win32-eventlog (0.4.6)  
> from MaintMenu.rb:1
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> setting RUBYOPT doesn’t seem to help either… ☹

setting to RUBYOPT=rubygems ?

what this produces?

ruby -rubygems -ve “require ‘watir’”

> note: i reiterate: the scripts work fine on 2003… ☹

It works because it has something installed that this new 2008 machine  
doesn’t.

We need to understand were the difference lies.

Unless you copied the whole Ruby folder and machine registry it will  
not be the same.