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
>
>
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