For the time being, install rubygems manually, I've been having similar trouble with firewatir and ubuntu
http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.6.2.zip unzip rubygems-1.6.2.zip ruby rubygems-1.6.2/setup.rb Cheers, Tim @90kts On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:04 AM, blkjk <blkjk....@gmail.com> wrote: > on WIN7 with: > - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7 > - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] > > gem install watir yields error: hoe requires RubyGems version 1.4 > > tried 'gem update --system', but no improvement > > I have installed successfully on other pcs w/ same, but failing here. > Thoughts? > > -- > 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