Has anyone used Watir with IronRuby successfully? I am getting an error that the required file 'Watir' was not found. What path do I need to set to get this file to work in IronRuby?
For some reason my igem command is not working:
C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin>igem instal
l watir
'"C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin\ir.exe"'
is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I am using 0.9 version of Ironruby.
I remember that in 0.9 you have to indicate the ir tool: I used the following and got the error again!
C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin>ir igem ins
tall watir
ERROR: While executing gem ... (RangeError)
bignum too big to convert into Fixnum
The current version of RubyGems is 1.3.5:
C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\bin>ir igem -v
1.3.5
I even tried using the full path:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/watir.rb"
Did you use gem install watir or igem install watir? If you are installing gems for IronRuby you have to use igem. Otherwise, it ends up being put inside the gems directory where your Ruby installation resides. IronRuby will not see that gems directory by default and you would have to use the full path to get to it. When using igem it puts the gem in the correct directory for use with IronRuby.
Watir uses MRI Ruby's WIN32OLE library. Is this library supported with Iron Ruby?
I found that when you get the required watir not found message in regular ruby you need to put before require 'watir' the text require 'rubygems'
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I am trying to use Selenium with Ruby. I am new to Ruby, I set it up using this blog http://testnerdy.blogspot.ca/2009/10/installing-ruby-and-selenium-on-windows.html
and the Ruby script I used is from here - http://testnerdy.blogspot.ca/2009/10/running-selenium-tests-written-in-ruby.html
When I ran the script, I get this error
SeleniumRubyWindowsTest.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- selenium/client (LoadError)
from SeleniumRubyWindowsTest.rb:1
Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?
Have you installed the selenium gem? If so, depending on your version of ruby you may need to do a
require 'rubygems'
as the first line of the script to pull in all the gem dependencies, which selenium could be one.
I just wanted to understand for my self.
I'm using the nokogiri gem (for parsing HTML). If I got it right to open URLs I need to use a method from the gem 'open-uri'.
But when I include it in my Gemfile (on Windows developer's machine):
gem 'open-uri' - there is an error while bundle install that it can not find gem.
So If I use require 'open-uri' - its working.
So can some explain what is going on?
You're using bundler for your gem dependecies and you're doing it right but OpenUri is part of the Ruby standard library. That's why you only need to require it if you want to use it in your code.
require is used to load another file and execute all its statements. This serves to import all class and method definitions in the file. require also keeps track of which files have been previously required so it doesn't execute it twice.
A RubyGem is a software package, commonly called a “gem”. Gems contain a packaged Ruby application or library. The RubyGems software itself allows you to easily download, install, and manipulate gems on your system.
- What is a Gem?:
The Gemfile is then used by bundler to install the specified gems.
open-uri is not a gem but part of the Ruby Standard Library so it just needs to be required.
I'm new to Ruby and I was looking around for libraries to parse html and found Nokogiri. The problem I'm having is if I fire up IRB and type require 'nokogiri', it works fine and prints out true. But if I include that as a part of my .rb file and execute it with ruby <scriptname>, it gives me a LoadError: no such file to load message.
My Ruby version is 1.8.7 if I type ruby --version in the terminal.
Try adding
require 'rubygems'
to the .rb file.
In Ruby 1.9+ rubygem is loaded automatically and not needed. Although there is debate whether that line is required pre 1.9.
Nevertheless, give it a shot.
I'm new to Ruby. I have a .bundle file. I put it in the source folder and did
require('my.bundle')
But when I call the methods in the bundle, the definition is not found. Do I have to install them or include them in some other way to access them?
I am on Ruby version 1.8.7 (latest version on Mac).
I highly recommend using RVM to manage your Ruby installation, including your gems, so if you don't already have that, get it and follow the instructions for installing it. Make sure you do the part about modifying your bash startup script or you'll see weird behavior, like the wrong Ruby being called. Also, use the steps in "RVM and RubyGems" to install your gems or you can run into weird behavior with gems being installed under the wrong or an unexpected Ruby.
Second, use the gem command to install gems:
gem install gem_to_install
replacing "gem_to_install" with the name of the gem you want, and it will be installed into the appropriate gem folder for your Ruby.
If you are on Ruby 1.92, and trying to require a gem to use as a module in your code, use:
require 'gemname'
if it is installed via the gem command. And, if it is a module you wrote or have in your program's directory or below it, use:
require_relative 'path/to/gem/gemname'
If you are on a Ruby < 1.9 you'll also need to add require 'rubygems' above your other require lines, then use require './path/to/gem/gemname'.
Thanks, but my .bundle is not in gems. How do I install/require a .bundle file I already have?
If you wrote it look into rubygems/gemcutter or bundler for info on bundling and managing gems.
You can install a gem without using the app by going into the directory containing the gem and running setup.rb. See http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/doc/usage.html for a decent writeup or the official docs at: http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3
I am just starting to learn ruby. It seems that the default gems install path is not part of Ruby. Is this normal behavior? How can I set the default ruby path? Example:
[11:53:33]wuntee:/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/packetfu-1.0.0/examples$ sudo ruby arphood.rb
Fetching the oui.txt from IEEE, it'll be a second. Avoid this with arphood.rb <filename>.
arphood.rb:30:in `require': no such file to load -- packetfu (LoadError)
from arphood.rb:30:in `arp_everyone'
from arphood.rb:51
As you can see packetfu is installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/, but ruby cant find it...
that's because you're not in the directory where packetfu.rb file lies and there's no require 'rubygems' to add the gems paths in your script