On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef / gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef / gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> package and everything will work fine.
>> I did install ActiveTcl on Windows, but afterwards "require 'tk'"
>> didn't work. It seems that I don't even have the proper Ruby files to
>> "require". I also never told Ruby where my Tcl/Tk was installed.
>
> I [vaguely] remember having this problem. After I installed
> ActiveState's package ruby wasn't able to see Tk's DLL. I believe my
> problem had gone after I restarted Windows. Perhaps the folder the DLL
> is in is added to Windows' registry somewhere and Windows notes it only
> after a restart. I know very little about Windows so this is only a
> guess.

I just installed ActiveTcl, on my home machine this time, and I don't
see any Ruby-specific files in its directory hierarchy. After
rebooting, requiring 'tk' again yielded "LoadError: no such file to
load -- tk", so I think I may be out of luck.