Hi! Ben, did you get any help from Daniel Berger?
The first thing I thought was just that there was some kind of conflict with Visual Studio. I have installed Visual Web developer 2008 and visual studio. It's really strange because my colleague have the same programs installed but she doesn't have any problem with watir, ruby. (Though, I think she installed watir BEfore she installed the other microsoft products...) /Jasmin On 12 Feb, 17:11, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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