Maybe. You should talk to Daniel Berger, who maintains the windows gems. I don't think he reads this list. [email protected]
Bret Ben wrote: > Ok... I tried a brand new installation of Ruby and Watir on a fresh > win xp install using a VMWare virtual machine and everything works > perfectly... I have both MS Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 6.0 > installed on my computer... I'm starting to beleive it might be a dll > version conflict caused by Visual Studio... What do you think of this? > Is it possible? > > Ben > > On Feb 12, 9:19 am, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I tried to completely uninstall (using gem uninstall <packagename>) >> and re-install win32-* gems, windows-* gems and Watir.. I still have >> the same problem. Here's my gem list : >> >> *** LOCAL GEMS *** >> >> activesupport (2.2.2) >> builder (2.1.2) >> commonwatir (1.6.2) >> firewatir (1.6.2) >> fxri (0.3.6) >> fxruby (1.6.16) >> hoe (1.8.3) >> hpricot (0.6.164) >> log4r (1.0.5) >> ptools (1.1.6) >> rake (0.8.3) >> ruby-opengl (0.60.0) >> rubyforge (1.0.2) >> s4t-utils (1.0.4) >> test-unit (2.0.2, 2.0.1) >> user-choices (1.1.6) >> watir (1.6.2) >> win32-api (1.3.0) >> win32-process (0.6.0) >> windows-api (0.3.0) >> windows-pr (1.0.1) >> xml-simple (1.0.11) >> >> and here's my ENV : >> >> RubyGems Environment: >> - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1 >> - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] >> - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 >> - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe >> - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby/bin >> - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: >> - ruby >> - x86-mswin32-60 >> - GEM PATHS: >> - C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 >> - C:/Documents and Settings/benoit.MSHEADOFFICE/.gem/ruby/1.8 >> - GEM CONFIGURATION: >> - :update_sources => true >> - :verbose => true >> - :benchmark => false >> - :backtrace => false >> - :bulk_threshold => 1000 >> - REMOTE SOURCES: >> -http://gems.rubyforge.org/ >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> Ben Lemire >> >> On Feb 12, 1:58 am, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> I think you need to do more than that. The problem seems to be that >>> there bad versions of these gems out there, and that they were fixed >>> without changing the version number. So the gem installer won't update >>> your gem. >>> >>> The solution, therefore, would be uninstall these gems and then >>> reinstall them. >>> >>> Bret >>> >>> Charley Baker wrote: >>> >>>> It seems there are some compatibility issues here with some of the >>>> win32utils. Try updating your win32-api gem, win32-process and the >>>> windows-pr gem as well. Same instructions that Aidy mentioned before >>>> with those gems. >>>> >>>> Charley Baker >>>> blog:http://charleybakersblog.blogspot.com/ >>>> Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org >>>> QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:51 AM, aidy lewis <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> This will work >>>> >>>> require 'watir' >>>> Watir::Browser.default = "ie" >>>> @browser ||= Watir::Browser.new >>>> >>>> Aidy >>>> >>>> 2009/2/5 Jaz <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>> >>>> > Hi! >>>> >>>> > Thanks for answering so fast Aidy >>>> > Unfortuneatly it still doesn't work =( >>>> >>>> > (Going crazy soon...) >>>> >>>> > /jasmin >>>> >>>> > On Feb 5, 1:59 pm, aidy lewis <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >> gem list -r win* >>>> >>>> >> gem update windows-api -y >>>> >>>> >> Aidy >>>> >>>> >> 2009/2/5 Jaz <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>> >>>> >> > How do I do that? >>>> >>>> >> > On Feb 5, 12:36 pm, aidy lewis <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >> >> At a guess try updating your windows api gem >>>> >>>> >> >> Aidy >>>> >>>> >> >> 2009/2/5 Jaz <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>>> >>>> >> >> > Hi! >>>> >>>> >> >> > Recently installed ruby to use watir, and I get a strange >>>> error when I >>>> >> >> > execute the steps in "Watir in 5 minutes" >>>> >> >> >http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Watir+in+5+Minutes >>>> >>>> >> >> > These are the steps I follow: >>>> >>>> >> >> > 1. require "watir" >>>> >>>> >> >> > 2. ie = Watir::IE.new >>>> >>>> >> >> > When I perform step 2 I get the following error: >>>> >>>> >> >> > Win32::API::Error: Attempt to format message failed >>>> >> >> > from >>>> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-api-0.3.0/lib/windows/ >>>> >> >> > api.rb:333 in 'initialize' >>>> >> >> > from >>>> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-api-0.3.0/lib/windows/ >>>> >> >> > api.rb:333 in 'new' >>>> >> >> > . >>>> >> >> > . >>>> >> >> > . >>>> >> >> > .. and the message continues. >>>> >> >> > I can write the whole message down if necessary. 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