# Verify installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 9, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181 "2008-05-09T18:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/1 "2008-05-09T18:50:56Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/2 "2008-05-09T20:04:55Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/3 "2008-05-09T21:00:41Z")
On May 9, 2:03 pm, Justin C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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\> ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/4 "2008-05-09T22:15:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/5 "2008-05-09T22:50:39Z")
On May 9, 4:14 pm, Justin C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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. > > -Justin- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - 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 😉 Marco ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/6 "2008-05-11T01:25:28Z")
On 9 mayo, 17:45, marcoa [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 > > > - Show quoted text - > > 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 😉 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, ---
**Author:** ![marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@marcoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcoa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verify-installation/137181/7 "2008-05-09T23:30:31Z")
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’ > > > > - Show quoted text - The Ruby source does come with tests, but I have no idea how they work on Windows. -Justin