[Wtr-general] The Watir Installer

[Charley Baker]

I had problems using gem remote installs through a corporate proxy server as
well. You can however, just download the watir.gem and from the command line
do:
> gem install watir.gem
in the directory you downloaded the gem into. That should be pretty simple
and will be the same process when you want to download other gems at some
point.

Otherwise you might try through an authenticating proxy:
gem install watir -p http://user@pass:proxy-url

Or:
gem install watir -p http://proxy-url
For a non-authenticating proxy.

-Charley

On 5/1/06, Harry Chou <harrychou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am newbie here. I am still learning Ruby and Watir is the whole
> reason I want to learn Ruby. I am afraid other new guys like me need
> to learn how to use GEM, before I can use Watir, before I start delve
> into Ruby. I am behind coporate firewall, I am constantly having
> touble using GEM installation.
>
> I know you will probably say GEM is easy. But, it's not easy for me.
> If it takes me more than couple hrs to know how to do it behind
> firewall, I am afraid other developers in my team will not bother to
> try it.
>
> Maybe I am missing something here. But, wouldn't we want to lower the
> barrier for people to use WATIR and even Ruby?
>
> On 4/29/06, Jonathan Kohl <jkohl at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> >
> > +1
> >
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >  From: wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org
> > [mailto:wtr-general-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of
> > Bret Pettichord
> > Sent: April 29, 2006 2:44 PM
> > To: wtr-general at rubyforge.org
> > Subject: [Wtr-general] The Watir Installer
> >
> >
> > This is a proposal for packaging Watir 1.5.
> >
> > Watir will be distributed as two files.
> > 1. watir-1.5.0.gem - A gem that can be downloaded and installed locally
> or
> > remotely installed over the internet (as always).
> > 2. watir-bonus.zip - A zip file containing the user guide, the examples,
> and
> > notes on where to find the unit tests and API docs (which are already in
> the
> > gem).
> >
> > The gem would be required on any machine running Watir tests. The bonus
> zip
> > would be recommend for any users learning Watir.
> >
> > Specifically, i am proposing that we stop distributing the one-click
> > installer. Why?
> > - The one-click installer installs the watir library and other files in
> > different locations than the gem. This can lead to confusion.
> > - The gem is becoming the standard method of installing Ruby libraries.
> > - The one-click installer could be updated to make it more consistent
> with
> > the gem, but no one has signed up to do this.
> > - It is simpler to just have one method of installing Watir.
> >
> > I've discussed this off line with several people, but feel like this is
> > something that requires official community review.
> >
> > Please vote on this proposal.
> >
> > Bret
> >
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