test objects design

On one of my Vista machines I just reinstalled ruby using 1.8.6-26 (one click installer) and watir 1.5.6
Of course I will need to reinstall all other gems because they perished when I uninstalled ruby 1.8.4-25 (yes, sometimes it’s nice to clean up and start again.)

So Ruby 1.8.9-26 bundles gem 0.9.4. I did not update the gem system (I am not sure if I should or not) and then I did ‘gem install watir’. Here is what we get at the prompt.

C:\Users\marekj>gem -v
0.9.4

C:\Users\marekj>gem install watir
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency win32-process? [Yn]  Y
Install required dependency windows-pr? [Yn]  Y
Install required dependency windows-api? [Yn]  Y
Install required dependency win32-api? [Yn]  Y
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
 1. win32-api 1.1.0 (ruby)
 2. win32-api 1.1.0 (x86-mswin32-60)
 3. win32-api 1.0.6 (ruby)
 4. win32-api 1.0.6 (x86-mswin32-60)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
> 2
Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]  Y
Successfully installed watir-1.5.6
Successfully installed win32-process-0.5.9
Successfully installed windows-pr-0.8.6
Successfully installed windows-api-0.2.3
Successfully installed win32-api-1.1.0-x86-mswin32-60
Successfully installed activesupport-2.1.0
Installing ri documentation for watir-1.5.6…
Installing ri documentation for win32-process-0.5.9…
Installing ri documentation for windows-pr-0.8.6…
Installing ri documentation for windows-api-0.2.3…
Installing ri documentation for win32-api-1.1.0-x86-mswin32-60…
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.1.0…
Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.5.6…
Installing RDoc documentation for win32-process-0.5.9…
Installing RDoc documentation for windows-pr-0.8.6…
Installing RDoc documentation for windows-api-0.2.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for win32-api-1.1.0-x86-mswin32-60…
Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.1.0…

C:\Users\marekj>

I am just not sure what activesupport is needed for here. which gem needs it? (I will look at gemspecs)

So to summarize - to install watir 1.5.6 I also needed to install 4 more gems: windows-pr-0.8.6, windows-api-0.2.3, win32-api-1.1.0 (x86-mswin32-60) and activesupport-2.1.0

we’ll dig deeper to make sure installation went great.
next unit tests.