watir not working on my vista machine

[ycsunil]

ruby version 1.8.6
watir version 1.5.3

Hello all,

On my vista mahine i've installed ruby and watir gem. They both got
installed succesfully. The problem is; when I enter "require 'watir' "
through IRB, it fails to load with the below error

irb(main):001:0> require 'watir'
RuntimeError: GetProcAddress: SetConsoleCommandHistoryMode or
SetConsoleCommandH
istoryModeA

from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.6.2/lib/
windows/console
.rb:76:in `initialize'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.6.2/lib/
windows/console
.rb:76:in `new'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.6.2/lib/
windows/console
.rb:76
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `ge
m_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `re
quire'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.5.1/lib/
win32/proces
s.rb:6
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `ge
m_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `re
quire'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.3/./watir/ie-
process.rb:1
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `ge
m_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `re
quire'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.5.3/./watir.rb:47
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
32:in `ge
m_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
32:in `re
quire'
from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0>

[Željko Filipin]

Make sure you install and run Ruby and Watir as administrator. That could help.

Željko
--
ZeljkoFilipin.com

[Charley Baker]

Also upgrade your version of windows-pr. Vista requires a later version.

>gem install windows-pr

-Charley