Verify installation

Ruby
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Is there a way to verify the installation of Ruby
I have downloaded and installed “182-15 stable” and then installed the
watir gem (gem install watir) taken all the defualt dependencies.
I am having a problem with executing the require ‘watir’ statement so
I want to ensure my ruby install is good.

Thanks to all

Marco

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marcoa wrote:

Is there a way to verify the installation of Ruby
I have downloaded and installed “182-15 stable” and then installed the
watir gem (gem install watir) taken all the defualt dependencies.
I am having a problem with executing the require ‘watir’ statement so
I want to ensure my ruby install is good.

Thanks to all

Marco

When you use gems, you have to require RubyGems somehow anytime you want
to use something installed as a gem.

Try:

require “rubygems”
require “watir”

-Justin

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On May 9, 2:03 pm, Justin C. [email protected] wrote:

When you use gems, you have to require RubyGems somehow anytime you want
to use something installed as a gem.

Try:

require “rubygems”
require “watir”

-Justin

I did as suggested. See transcript below. Notice the return of “false”
after the require rubygems. I did a “update_rubygems” and it reports
that rubygems is already installed. Weird??

C:>irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> false
irb(main):002:0> require ‘watir’
Windows::API::Error: #Windows::API::Error:0x2b08310
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-api-0.2.3/lib/
windows/api.rb:331:in initialize' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/ windows/window.rb:40:in new’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/
windows/window.rb:40
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in require__' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 18:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.5.8/lib/
win32/process.rb:8
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in require__' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 18:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir/ie-
process.rb:1
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in require__' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 18:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir.rb:47
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
18:in require__' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 18:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:175:in
activate' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 23:in require’
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

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marcoa wrote:

Thanks to all

irb(main):002:0> require ‘watir’
18:in `require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

The false return value is typical for RubyGems and nothing to worry
about. I would suggest looking for help from Watir’s community.

-Justin

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On May 9, 4:14 pm, Justin C. [email protected] wrote:

require “watir”
irb(main):002:0> require ‘watir’
18:in `require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>

The false return value is typical for RubyGems and nothing to worry
about. I would suggest looking for help from Watir’s community.

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Ok good to know. I have posted in the watir group but someone there
suggested verifying my ruby installation by running some canned unit
tests or something and that is why I came over to this group to find
out how to verify an installation. Once verified I will have reason to
isolate the discussion to watir :wink:

Marco

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On 9 mayo, 17:45, marcoa [email protected] wrote:

I have downloaded and installed “182-15 stable” and then installed the

windows/window.rb:40
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir/ie-
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:175:in

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Ok good to know. I have posted in the watir group but someone there
suggested verifying my ruby installation by running some canned unit
tests or something and that is why I came over to this group to find
out how to verify an installation. Once verified I will have reason to
isolate the discussion to watir :wink:

I’ll suggest you revisit the Watir dependencies.

based on the backtrace, it seems Watir is using latest windows-pr
version, dunno if was planned to run with it or any other specific
version.

I ran into similar problems for mongrel_service and win32-service
dependency. I suggest you look into that before.

You can ask anyone in the Watir list give you a list of gems and
versions related to win32utils project (both windows-pr and win32-
process gems)

Also, will be helpful know the version of Windows you’re using (XP or
Vista in 32 or 64bits versions).

Regards,

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marcoa wrote:

watir gem (gem install watir) taken all the defualt dependencies.
Try:
C:>irb
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
process.rb:1
`activate’

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The Ruby source does come with tests, but I have no idea how they work
on Windows.

-Justin