# Win32-guitest for ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349 "2007-03-01T22:58:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349/1 "2007-03-01T22:58:49Z")

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So I came across this lib for gui testing using ruby.  
[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=win32-guitest](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=win32-guitest)

Considering that I’m using vb script in Automated QA’s TestComplete  
right now, this looked like heaven on earth.

Sadly this doesn’t seem to work out of the box.  
The installer doesn’t quite run, and manually putting the libraries  
into place didn’t work…and worst of all, it appears to have been  
compiled with cygwin 😛  
Does anyone out there know of a way to cleanly install this… without  
cygwin? Heck if it’s absolutely deal-breakingly necessary, I’ll even  
suck it up and install cygwin, I’m just hoping not to.

Thanks  
–Kyle

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349/2 "2007-03-01T23:20:59Z")

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On Mar 1, 2:58 pm, “Kyle S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> cygwin? Heck if it’s absolutely deal-breakingly necessary, I’ll even  
> suck it up and install cygwin, I’m just hoping not to.
> 
> Thanks  
> –Kyle

I spent some time working with this, but it was about 2 years ago. I  
cant remember what the outcome was, but I dont think I had much  
success  
there is also [http://rubyforge.org/projects/guitest/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/guitest/)  
But I dont think theyve done much work on it.  
the perl win32::guitest is useful. But its perl.

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349/3 "2007-03-01T23:25:59Z")

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I was hoping to stay in rubyland, but heck, perl is still worlds  
better, eons more advanced, somethings more exciting, than vbscript.

I’ll just watch this thread for a few days and hope though 🙂

–Kyle

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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32-guitest-for-ruby/87349/4 "2007-03-02T00:16:05Z")

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On Mar 1, 3:25 pm, “Kyle S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I was hoping to stay in rubyland, but heck, perl is still worlds  
> better, eons more advanced, somethings more exciting, than vbscript.
> 
> I’ll just watch this thread for a few days and hope though 🙂
> 
> –Kyle

depending on what you are trying to do, you can always use autoit and  
use ruby to control it via com