Installed Watir (v1.6.5) on top of Ruby (v1.8.6) on my 32bit WinXP and
64 bit Vista systems. Ran into way too many issues trying to use Ruby
1.9.1 (64-bit) and Watir(v1.6.5), so degraded to try these older
versions, as Watir site recommends.

Are versions of Watir (v1.6.5) and Ruby (v1.8.6) for Vista 64-bit
available? If so where?

This is the four line program that run OK on 32bit XP, but fails on 64
bit Vista.

require 'Watir'
browser=Watir::Browser.new
browser.minimize            # Fails on this line
browser.close

Here's the irb session on the 64-bit Vista system:

C:\>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'Watir'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> browser=Watir::Browser.new
=> #<Watir::IE:0x4c98a5c url="about:blank" title="">
irb(main):003:0> browser.minimize
WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown OLE server: `AutoItX3.Control'
    HRESULT error code:0x800401f3
      Invalid class string
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie.rb:114:in
`initialize'
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie.rb:114:in
`new'
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie.rb:114:in
`autoit'
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:
438:in
`autoit'
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:
435:in
`set_window_state'
        from
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:
416:in
`minimize'
        from (irb):3
irb(main):004:0> exit


FYI: Here's the output from gem's env command:
C:\>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6
  - 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:/Users/Me/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/

Here's relevant definition from the Watir file: ie-class.rb

414    # Minimize the window (appears as icon on taskbar)
415    def minimize
416      set_window_state :SW_MINIMIZE
417    end


434 def set_window_state(state)
435       autoit.WinSetState title, '', autoit.send(state)
436    end
437 def autoit
438      Watir::autoit
439    end

Here's relevant definition from the Watir file: ie.rb:

108 def self.autoit
109    unless @@autoit
110      begin
111        @@autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control')
112      rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError
113        _register('AutoItX3.dll')
114        @@autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control')
115      end
116    end
117    @@autoit
118  end

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