Good idea, I've since updated this page to reflect. Loading RubyGems
If you’re a first time Ruby user, you need to understand how to load Ruby gems such as Watir. You can require it via the -rubygems command line option or by using the RUBYOPT environment variable. You can also require it manually in your script: require 'rubgyems' For more information see here<http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page70> . Cheers, Tim On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Bill Agee <billa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's time to start updating Watir documentation with a " require > 'rubygems' " step (or at least a note warning about the issue). > > A lot of folks installing Ruby on Windows for the first time are winding up > without the RUBYOPT env var, and thus have a rockier first experience than > those of us who came to Watir in the legacy one-click installer days. :) > > I think a good place to start would be: > > http://watir.com/examples/ > > Is it pretty easy to update? > > I suppose a number of other docs would need to be changed too...not sure > what the most popular destinations are these days for folks evaluating > Watir. > > Thanks > Bill > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Tim Koopmans <tim.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Try >> >> require 'rubygems' >> >> Before your require for Watir... Or set your RUBYOPT environment variable >> ... >> >> Regards, >> Tim >> >> >> >> On 18/02/2011, at 8:06 AM, mmauric <michel.maur...@yahoo.fr> wrote: >> >> > As explained in the getting started, I have installed ruby-1.8.7-p330 >> > with the option to update the path variable on Windows 7 pro and >> > performed: >> > >> > gem update --system >> > gem install watir >> > >> > -> watir-1.7.1 is installed (all seems right) >> > >> > Then I try to launch Watir and here is below the error message I get: >> > >> > C:\Ruby187>irb >> > irb<main>:001:0>require 'watir' >> > LoadError: no such file to load --watir >> > from <irb>:2in 'require' >> > from <irb>:2 >> > irb<main>:003:0> >> > >> > With Ruby-1.8.7, I have got some successfully cases (answer =>true), >> > but I have not understood the scenario to reproduce. >> > >> > I have tried with different current directories and other versions of >> > ruby without more success. >> > >> > Thank you for your help. >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > -- >> > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> > >> > watir-general@googlegroups.com >> > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> -- >> >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> watir-general@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general%0awatir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
