this is a problem with a gem that watir installs. search the mailing list for Windows::API and you should find the solution
Paul On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Samar Javid <sfja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I'm a newbee at Watir. I've installed ruby and watir and am trying the > quickstart tutorials. However, I can't get to open internet explorer. > I get following error message: > > C:\>irb > irb(main):001:0> require "watir" > => true > irb(main):002:0> ie=Watir::IE.new > NameError: uninitialized constant Windows::API::Error > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/windows-pr-0.9.3/lib/ > windows/thread.rb:59 > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `gem_original_require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-process-0.5.9/lib/ > win32/process.rb:3 > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `gem_original_require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie- > process.rb:1 > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `gem_original_require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: > 31:in `require' > from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ > ie.rb:45 > from (irb):2 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---