Does Watir work with ruby 1.9.1

[Karthikeyan K]

Since Ruby 1.9.1 is out, I tried installing and it. Now I have problem
with Watir is it is throwing error on loading libraries (syntax
error). So my question is, is watir comapatible with Ruby 1.9.1?

[Bret Pettichord]

I'm not even sure if Watir works with Ruby 1.8.7. Does any one know?

Bret

[infoDrone]

I have had success using Watir with 1.8.7, but I haven't gotten around
to trying it with 1.9 yet.

On Feb 20, 10:16 am, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote:
> I'm not even sure if Watir works with Ruby 1.8.7. Does any one know?
>
> Bret
>
> Karthikeyan K wrote:

> > Since Ruby1.9.1 is out, I tried installing and it. Now I have problem

[German]

Hi,

I was trying the same and got errors too. I add more details below.

There problems are caused by required libs that were yet not migrated
to Ruby 1.9.

Here is what i got after i installed a fresh Ruby (1.9.1), then
RubyGems (1.3.1), then Watir (1.6.2):

c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/user-choices-1.1.6/lib/user-
choices/arglist-strategies.rb:152: warning: else without rescue is
useless
c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/user-choices-1.1.6/lib/user-
choices.rb:1:in `require': c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/user-
choices-1.1.6/lib/user-choices/arglist-strategies.rb:148: syntax
error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or
'\n' (SyntaxError)
when 0: # This is not considered an error because another source
^
c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/user-choices-1.1.6/lib/user-
choices/arglist-strategies.rb:178: syntax error, unexpected
keyword_end, expecting $end
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/user-choices-1.1.6/lib/
user-choices.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir/options.rb:3:in `require'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir/options.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir/browser.rb:2:in `require'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir/browser.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir.rb:6:in `require'
from c:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/
watir.rb:6:in `<top (required)>'


The problem is that (the installed version of) the "user-choices" lib
is not migrated to Ruby 1.9.
The error is described here:
http://intertwingly.net/slides/2008/oscon/ruby19/17

Bye,

German

[Thomas Preymesser]

2009/2/20 Karthikeyan K <mailk...@gmail.com>:

>
> Since Ruby 1.9.1 is out, I tried installing and it. Now I have problem
> with Watir is it is throwing error on loading libraries (syntax
> error). So my question is, is watir comapatible with Ruby 1.9.1?

in general you can look for 1.9 compatibility at http://isitruby19.com/

-Thomas

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