I have not used Watir or Watir-webdriver in about a year. I installed a fresh 32x Windows 7 on image on my computer. Next I installed Ruby with the installation pack version 2.0.0-p0. Then I updated ruby gem to version 2.0.3. After that I installed the devkit with the name DevKit-mingw64-32-4.7.2-20130224-1151-sfx, which is what the website said was the right one. The Devkit installed properly. Now when I went to install Watir using the command line, gem install watir, I get an error. Watir installs for a while and then I get these lines of code. I went to the nokogiri.org site as the code suggested. The nokogiri site said to install just use gem install nokogiri, so I did. I then installed ffi and it worked. I will leave the code below in case some one else has the same problem.
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Fetching: mini_portile-0.5.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed mini_portile-0.5.0
Fetching: nokogiri-1.6.0.rc1.gem (100%)
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing watir:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Ruby200/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for libxml/parser.h... no
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libxml2 is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokog
iri.html for help with installing dependencies.
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*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=C:/Ruby200/bin/ruby
--with-zlib-dir
--without-zlib-dir
--with-zlib-include
--without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
--with-zlib-lib
--without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
--with-iconv-dir
--without-iconv-dir
--with-iconv-include
--without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include
--with-iconv-lib
--without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib
--with-xml2-dir
--without-xml2-dir
--with-xml2-include
--without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include
--with-xml2-lib
--without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib
--with-xslt-dir
--without-xslt-dir
--with-xslt-include
--without-xslt-include=${xslt-dir}/include
--with-xslt-lib
--without-xslt-lib=${xslt-dir}/lib
--with-libxslt-config
--without-libxslt-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
--with-libxml-2.0-config
--without-libxml-2.0-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
--with-libiconv-config
--without-libiconv-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/nokogiri-
1.6.0.rc1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.0.rc1/ext/nok
ogiri/gem_make.out
Now that watir was installed. I ran a few test scripts to see if it was working and it was. so now I wanted to install Watir-webdriver. I used the code 'gem install watir-webdriver and the gem installed properly. However this is when I run into problem. If i download the latest chrome driver from here and put it into the ruby bin, which is in my path, i get this error.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\kai.knutson>irb DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
irb(main):001:0> require "watir-webdriver"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> e = Watir::Browser.new :chrome Started ChromeDriver port=9515 version=0.8
log=C:\Users\kai.knutson\chromedriver.log
=> #<Watir::Browser:0x..fa558e0f6 url={"message"=>"no such session: url\n (Driv er
info: chromedriver=0.8,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86)"} title={"message"=>" no such
session: title\n (Driver info: chromedriver=0.8,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86)"}>
If I try and use internet explorer it works, but not properly I can't click on links, and there are a few other glitchy things. I know that the code that I ran works, because It ran perfectly when using watir classic or just normal watir. So my question is how can i get chrome to work, and am I missing something from the installation that would cause watir webdriver to not work.
