Can't use my Shoes!

[chabaug]

I’m going nuts trying to install Shoes and Ruby and get things going. I’ve started reading ‘Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby’ by Sau Sheong Chang, and I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to get this done unsuccessfully. When I try to run one of the samples, the output is: ‘simple-downloader.rb:1:in `': uninitialized constant Shoes (NameError)’, like if Shoes wasn’t installed.

I’ve downloaded shoes-3.2.15-gtk2-x86_64.install and I’m using ruby-2.1.3, but I’ve tried previous Ruby versions too, without different results. What can I do?

[PragTob]

The installed ruby version should not have any effect.

Did you also install shoes? When you type shoes -v on the console is there any output?

cc: @ccoupe

[freexnm]

I have a similar thing. Although I successfully got the gem, then tried to use GUI app, when I'm typing shoes -v I always get following output:

'jruby' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. The system cannot find the file specified. '-v' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I already tried to install JRuby, but still nothing happens.

It seems like I fixed this. I do apologise.