Does Watir work under ruby 1.9.1?

Question

Here is the .rb program:

require 'watir'
b = Watir::Browser.new

the 2nd line will trigger a ""The program can't start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll is missing from your computer!" error.

I am using 1.9.1p378 on win32

ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

How can I fix this? Thanks for your attention.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that one of the win32 gems that Watir is using hasn't been updated to 1.9.1. We've fixed all the 1.9.1 issues we're aware of with the core Watir code.

Bret

Answer 2

I had to patch Ruby 1.9.1 with these two gems:

win32-api-1.4.0-x86-mswin32-60.gem
win32-open3-0.2.9-x86-mswin32-60.gem

Try doing a Google search for either of those gems and you should find a link. I'd host them myself but I can't access my ftp from here.