marcoa wrote:
>  On May 9, 2:03 pm, Justin Collins <justincoll...@[...].edu> wrote:
>    
> > marcoa wrote:
> >     
> >> Is there a way to verify the installation of Ruby
> >> I have downloaded and installed "182-15 stable" and then installed the
> >> watir gem (gem install watir) taken all the defualt dependencies.
> >> I am having a problem with executing the require 'watir' statement so
> >> I want to ensure my ruby install is good.
> >>       
> >> Thanks to all
> >>       
> >> Marco
> >>       
> > When you use gems, you have to require RubyGems somehow anytime you want
> > to use something installed as a gem.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > require "rubygems"
> > require "watir"
> >
> > -Justin
> >     
> 
>  I did as suggested. See transcript below. Notice the return of "false"
>  after the require rubygems. I did a "update_rubygems" and it reports
>  that rubygems is already installed. Weird??
> 
>  C:\>irb
>  irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
>  => false
>  irb(main):002:0> require 'watir'
>  Windows::API::Error: #<Windows::API::Error:0x2b08310>
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-api-0.2.3/lib/
>  windows/api.rb:331:in `initialize'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/
>  windows/window.rb:40:in `new'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.8.3/lib/
>  windows/window.rb:40
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require__'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.5.8/lib/
>  win32/process.rb:8
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require__'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir/ie-
>  process.rb:1
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require__'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.4/./watir.rb:47
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require__'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  18:in `require'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:175:in
>  `activate'
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
>  23:in `require'
>          from (irb):2
>  irb(main):003:0>
> 
> 
>    

The false return value is typical for RubyGems and nothing to worry 
about. I would suggest looking for help from Watir's community.

-Justin