wxruby users - Sep 2007 - Installation and use question (linux) [was installation ... ]

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 >...
 >>gem install wxruby
 >>
 >Great.  Many, many thanks to yourself and all involved.
 >
 >FWIW, I''ve just, in the last min, installed it on an i586-linux
box.
 >The nearest option being i686-linux.

Another newbie question from me, I''m afraid.  The gem installs reported
successful install; but I can''t find wxruby.  (Using ''find
/'' with
-name, -ilname etc.)  So what more do I need to do?  I ran the gem 
install from my home directory, and expected that perhaps I''d need to 
add path(s).  But obviously I need to do something(s) else and/or 
differently.

TIA for any help.

Regards,

Alec
-- 
Alec Ross

Alec Ross wrote:
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>  >...
>  >>gem install wxruby
>  >>
>  >Great.  Many, many thanks to yourself and all involved.
>  >
>  >FWIW, I''ve just, in the last min, installed it on an
i586-linux box.
>  >The nearest option being i686-linux.
>   
I don''t think this should be a problem, but I''m not sure. The
names of
the gems are automatically generated and they can cause problems if they 
are changed.

I make the linux gems on Ubuntu 7.4 and if someone could tell me how to 
get it make i386-linux or similar I''d be happy to do
that.
> Another newbie question from me, I''m afraid.  The gem installs
reported
> successful install; but I can''t find wxruby.  (Using
''find /'' with
> -name, -ilname etc.)  So what more do I need to do?  I ran the gem 
> install from my home directory, and expected that perhaps I''d need
to
> add path(s).  But obviously I need to do something(s) else and/or 
> differently.
wxRuby''s library and samples will be installed in 
path/to/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.1/ eg /usr/local/lib/ruby/... 
You don''t need to add these paths anywhere.

As with any library being used from a gem, you need to tell ruby to 
allow libraries to be loaded by rubygems. There are several ways to do 
this, but briefly, you can do it on the command line:

ruby -rubygems my_wxruby_script.rb

or at the start of the ruby script, before you load wx

require ''rubygems''
require ''wx''

hth
alex

In message <46EFA93F.6040104 at pressure.to>, Alex Fenton 
<alex at pressure.to> writes
>Alec Ross wrote:
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[snip v. clear and useful advice]

Many thanks for your help (and patience), Alex

Alec
-- 
Alec Ross

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>wxRuby''s library and samples will be installed in
>path/to/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.1/ eg /usr/local/lib/ruby/...
Or, in my case, subdirectories of

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.1-i686-linux/samples/

, on openSUSE 10.2

(In case this helps another SuSE user.)

Tks again,

Alec
-- 
Alec Ross