cannot load such file — watir (LoadError)

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mark lane

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Oct 29, 2017, 4:21:35 PM10/29/17
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I am currently setting up some Cucumber tests and my Hook file contains the following :

require 'watir'

Before do
  @browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
end

After do
  @browser.close
end


When I run my feature file I get the following:


cannot load such file -- watir (LoadError) /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire' /Users/marklane/RubymineProjects/test_puppies/features/support/hooks.rb:2:in <top (required)>' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/rb_support/rb_language.rb:129:inload' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/rb_support/rb_language.rb:129:in load_code_file' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:171:inload_file' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:83:in block in load_files!' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:82:ineach' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime/support_code.rb:82:in load_files!' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime.rb:175:inload_step_definitions' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/runtime.rb:40:in run!' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:43:inexecute!' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/lib/cucumber/cli/main.rb:20:in execute' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/cucumber-1.2.1/bin/cucumber:14:in' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/bin/cucumber:23:in load' /Users/marklane/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/bin/cucumber:23:in' -e:1:in load' -e:1:in'


My Gem File Lock is:


GEM remote: https://rubygems.org/ specs: backports (3.10.3) builder (3.2.3) childprocess (0.8.0) ffi (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.11) concurrent-ruby (1.0.5) cucumber (3.0.1) builder (>= 2.1.2) cucumber-core (~> 3.0.0) cucumber-expressions (~> 4.0.3) cucumber-wire (~> 0.0.1) diff-lcs (~> 1.3) gherkin (~> 4.0) multi_json (>= 1.7.5, < 2.0) multi_test (>= 0.1.2) cucumber-core (3.0.0) backports (>= 3.8.0) cucumber-tag_expressions (>= 1.0.1) gherkin (>= 4.1.3) cucumber-expressions (4.0.4) cucumber-tag_expressions (1.0.1) cucumber-wire (0.0.1) data_magic (1.2) faker (>= 1.1.2) yml_reader (>= 0.6) diff-lcs (1.3) faker (1.8.4) i18n (~> 0.5) ffi (1.9.18) gherkin (4.1.3) i18n (0.9.0) concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0) multi_json (1.12.2) multi_test (0.1.2) page-object (2.2.4) page_navigation (>= 0.10) selenium-webdriver (~> 3.0) watir (~> 6.8) page_navigation (0.10) data_magic (>= 0.22) rake (12.2.1) rspec (3.7.0) rspec-core (~> 3.7.0) rspec-expectations (~> 3.7.0) rspec-mocks (~> 3.7.0) rspec-core (3.7.0) rspec-support (~> 3.7.0) rspec-expectations (3.7.0) diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0) rspec-support (~> 3.7.0) rspec-mocks (3.7.0) diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0) rspec-support (~> 3.7.0) rspec-support (3.7.0) rubyzip (1.2.1) selenium-webdriver (3.6.0) childprocess (~> 0.5) rubyzip (~> 1.0) watir (6.8.4) selenium-webdriver (~> 3.4, >= 3.4.1) yml_reader (0.7)

PLATFORMS ruby

DEPENDENCIES cucumber data_magic page-object (~> 2.0) rake rspec watir



I am unsure why this error is occurring when I have Watir installed. When I require Watir and run the script just using the ruby file then it works ok. As soon as do the same using the Feature it errors.

When Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Carlito GZ

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Oct 30, 2017, 8:22:05 AM10/30/17
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Hi 

One question I have is why are you using such an old version of Ruby? Do you know that it is no longer supported?
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