I got it to work using the pic gem, I was trying to install watir on my regular ruby and not jruby. Even though the error said jruby, I did not invoke jruby gem.
On Apr 13, 3:48 pm, Luis Lavena <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, April 13, 2012 10:31:18 AM UTC-3, Jedrin wrote: > > > I have been having this problem on windows 7 where I have installed > > JRuby, sometimes when I try to install a regular Ruby gem instead of > > something for JRuby I get an error message that seems to indicate it > > thinks it's for JRuby .. > > > Below is an example. If I was going to install the gem to JRuby I > > would type > > jruby -S gem install watir --no-ri --no-rdoc, but I tried to install > > it to the other Ruby: > > > gem install watir --no-ri --no-rdoc > > The error, while mixed in the backtrace seems clear to me: the usage of > native extensions (C) with JRuby is not recommended. > > Also, it is failing to find a suitable compiler ("cc"). > > If you still want to use JRuby, probably you should want to obtain a > compiler for it. I heard that someone managed to use RubyInstaller DevKit > with it, but I haven't tried it out. > > http://jonforums.github.com/ruby/2010/11/30/devkit-jruby-c-extensions... > > If your version of JRuby is newer than the one indicated there, perhaps you > don't need to compile JRuby yourself. > > YMMV specially considering win32-api gems are not suitable for JRuby. > Developers are working on port it to use FFI instead. You can also reach > the Watir guys to figure out alternatives. > > Hope that helps > -- > Luis Lavena -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
