# Shoes and Watir

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-watir/128865>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 12, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-watir/128865 "2008-02-12T09:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![sheepfunk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@sheepfunk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sheepfunk)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-watir/128865/1 "2008-02-12T09:33:41Z")

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Hi I’m trying to write an interactive watir script that prompts the user  
for input.

First I tried to call a “shoes” script from within my watir script, but  
that didn’t seem to work

system(‘shoes prompt.rb’)

Then I tried running my whole script via shoes, but that had issues  
finding the watir libraries. From what I read it seems like I need to  
add the watir libraries to the shoes/lib directory.

However, I’m wondering if there is an easier way, I just want a script  
that will pop up with a “please manually fill out this form field”  
message every now and then.