Cannot require 'wx'

Desktop wxRuby
1

Hi everyone,

I’m new to wxRuby. I installed using “gem install wxruby” and it
installed version 2.0.1, along with ri and rdoc documentation. I try
to test it in irb, but I get this message:

irb(main):001:0> require 'wx'
LoadError: no such file to load -- wx
        from (irb):1:in `require'
        from (irb):1

I also get an error message if I write this code in a text editor:

require "wx"
include Wx

class MinimalApp < App
   def on_init
    Frame.new(nil, -1, "The Bare Minimum").show()
   end
end


MinimalApp.new.main_loop

Produces this:

./wx.rb:2: uninitialized constant Wx (NameError)
        from wx.rb:1:in `require'
        from wx.rb:1

I thought it had something to do with the wx_sugar gem so I
uninstalled it using “gem uninstall wx_sugar”, but the errors were still
there. I am using Win XP Professional, and Ruby Installer 1.8.7.
Please help!

2

I believe you have to require rubygems before you require wx

3

Bruce Loving wrote:

I believe you have to require rubygems before you require wx

Hi, I did as you suggested and got the following:

NameError: uninitialized constant Wx
from ./wx.rb:2
from
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire’

This was using irb.

4

Hi,

I tried using Ruby Installer 1.8.6 and now it works (after requiring
rubygems as you suggested). It seems wxruby is incompatible with the
newer versions. They should put that in the tutorial.

Anyhoop, thanks so much. Now I can begin programming GUI in Ruby!

5

this works just fine for me.
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘wx’
include Wx

6

Thanks for the explanation Mario,

You will find with our next wxRuby gem release, that it will be compiled
for
MINGW and GCC 4.0+. And then we’ll have to provide deprecated versions
for
older GCC Versions. I don’t know if we will still maintain a MSVCRT
version
for Windows, as that has not been decided yet.

hth,

Mario

I did not completely understand what you meant with this paragraph but
I assume that you mean the next release will be compatible without
requiring a separate build. I look forward to it.

I do remember downloading a wx-ready ruby 1.9 installer from the
wxRuby page in RubyForge a while back. Not sure if it’s still
available. But I didn’t use it for long. Anyway, I’ll check it out
again. In the meantime, I’m happy with 1.8.6.

7

Heya Tuti,

We provide a Installer program on our Projects page of RubyForge for
Ruby
1.8.7, and wxRuby combined. The reason we have troubles with this, is
cause
the Ruby Installer project just went from MSVCRT compiler to the MINGW
compiler. Different compilers have different methods in which to
compile
code, and export Library Routines, so binary extensions built for
MSVCRT,
isn’t compatible with MINGW. The same holds true on Ubuntu systems.
Ubuntu
version 8.10 and before earlier use gcc 3.3, which is incompatible with
Ubuntu version 9.04 onwards, which uses gcc 4.0. We have to use
different
builds for < 8.10 compared to > 9.04.

The main cause of this, is RubyGems isn’t very compiler aware, outside
of
the main compiler names, they don’t allow for Compiler versions in the
naming scheme. So we have to package things a bit differently. In most
cases, when you try to install a binary Gem, it won’t follow the
compiler
used, especially MINGW, as it just recently became popular with
the adaptation of the Ruby O. Click Installer project.

You will find with our next wxRuby gem release, that it will be compiled
for
MINGW and GCC 4.0+. And then we’ll have to provide deprecated versions
for
older GCC Versions. I don’t know if we will still maintain a MSVCRT
version
for Windows, as that has not been decided yet.

hth,

Mario