No. I think Aslak is running the new Technology Preview of the one-click installer. They are using the ming32 compiler instead of Visual Studio. http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167&release_id=38052
This sounds like an issue. We're also going to need to recompile Watir's support for modal dialogs. Bret Charley Baker wrote: > Hey Aslak, > > Missed seeing you this year at Agile. :) Thanks for the details, > responses inline > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Aslak Hellesøy > <aslak.helle...@gmail.com <mailto:aslak.helle...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > I realisesd I had a rather old Ruby in my previous post, so I > installed the newest Ruby One-Click installer (1.8.6): > > > I believe you were using p111 on 186 and Watir 1.6.2 according to the > gist. I'm using the same versions of everything you posted - also on a > VM for my Mac, and 10+ vms that we're using for test boxes as well as > 70 odd qa engineers. I haven't seen that error. > > In most of the requests I found when searching for that error tends to > be related to COM requests being hosed by Windows. I hate to ask the > obvious, but did you restart your VM? > > You might follow Zeljko's instructions on installing the latest rc > gems, though I doubt that would help since nothing has changed in the > IE process invocation. > > > > > ruby --version > ruby 1.8.6 (2009-08-04 patchlevel 383) [i386-mingw32] > > This Ruby version doesn't come with the win32* gems installed, so when > I try to gem install watir it wants to install win32-api. > > Now, this gem won't install - it tries to compile the win32-api gem's > C code, and since I don't have Visual Studio that fails. > > The only prebuilt win32-api gem is win32-api-1.4.5-x86-mswin32-60.gem > (http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85&release_id=38337 > <http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85&release_id=38337>) - which > won't > install since it's not built for mingw32 (which is what Ruby is built > with). > > Result: I can't use Watir with the latest 1.8.6 One click installer. > > > There is a dev package that you can use with the one click installer > that will build the win32* and associated windows gems. I haven't > tried it yet, but it is on the download page. I've been half following > Luis' progress on the next one click, need to get more involved with > that and make sure with our dependencies we can work with the new > installer. Spent some time with pik as well to manage the deps; > hopefully I'll have a bit more spare time to work on that soon. > > > The same problem applies to ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) > [i386-mingw32] (Latest Ruby 1.9 one-click installer). > > > This is similar to the above issue. Jari Bakken has made some changes > in Watir to work with 1.9.1, which are in the rc2 gems Zeljko > mentioned. One of current requirements is user-choices by Brian > Marick, which doesn't work on 1.9.1, sent him a mail about moving the > code over to github. > > > Let me know how it goes, happy to help troubleshoot this. > > -c > > > > So what to do? What Ruby versions do people use to get Watir installed > and working? > > Cheers, > Aslak > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
