TestWise app on Mac Yosemite

[Den Dem]

Hi, I am on Mac Yosemite and instructions are kinda confusing.

Do I need to have Mac Maverick OS to copy Ruby 1.8 or is there another option?

Thanks

[Zhimin]

Do I need to have Mac Maverick OS to copy Ruby 1.8 or is there another option?

Yes.  

[Den Dem]

Hmm, I do not have Maverick OS, only Yosemite, so I am out of luck?

[Zhimin]

You may run TestWise Windows in Virtual Machines such as VMWare or Parallel Desktop. 

[NEdwards]

https://testwisely.com/blog/posts/run-testwise-mac-on-yosemite

Is it possible to get clarification on why the 1.8 frameworks needs to be copied from an older computer? Is it not possible to build this from 1.8 source? I gave this a quick shot, but ran into an error with the build:

ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib/fileutils.rb:849:in `stat': No such file or directory - ruby (Errno::ENOENT)

[Zhimin]

In short, TestWise Mac is built on an open-source library which depends on Ruby 1.8.  You might wonder why not upgrade 2.0?  We would like to, however, the open-source library was suspended a few years ago. There is a plan to re-develop TestWise for Mac from scratch, as you see, this requires effort. 

TestWise Mac (beta) works, but not stable as we like. It is usable though, we wrote thousands of tests for our web apps, mostly on TestWise Mac. The revenue of TestWise licenses will be used for funding next development. If you like TestWise, please buy TestWise or tell others. 

Back to your question, currently TestWise Mac relies on Ruby 1.8 installed under /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8