Not sure how many have tried Watir with Cygwin but your problem seems to be a permission one. Can you try to change the permission by doing a chmod and check if it is working?
Also has anyone faced any problems in using Watir with PowerShell? Regards, Sai On Jan 27, 6:19 pm, Arco <akl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Watir doesn't work for me. Sadly ironic, for a regression test > tool... > > Platform: WinXP / Cygwin > Ruby: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin] > Watir 1.6.2 > > Here's what I do: > - gem install watir > - irb > > >> require 'watir' > => true > >> x = Watir::IE.new > > LoadError: Permission denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/ > lib/watir > /win32ole/win32ole.so > from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ > win32ole/win32ole > .so > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `requi > re' > from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ > win32ole.rb:5 > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `gem_o > riginal_require' > from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `requi > re' > from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie.rb: > 38 > from (irb):2 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---