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Article:		Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Subject:		Can't include Appscript
Date:		2007-03-01 00:36:33
From:		stiang
Great article, but I got stuck when I wanted to try the examples. I installed via RubyGems, so I thought this would work: irb(main):005:0> require "rubygems" => true irb(main):006:0> gem "rb-appscript" => true irb(main):007:0> include Appscript NameError: uninitialized constant Appscript from (irb):7 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:234 Am I doing something wrong?

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• Can't include Appscript
  2007-03-01 07:05:12  Matt Neuburg | [View]
  
  
  Hi, stiang - I don't have a good answer. With RubyGems, you're on your own. Try the installation method I described and see if that works better for you. The article describes the installation method that I was able to get to work. It doesn't talk about methods that I wasn't able to get to work.
• Can't include Appscript
  2007-03-01 07:28:59  stiang [View]
  
  
  Thanks, the method you described does indeed work. I just thought I'd check that I wasn't doing something obviously wrong.
  
  On to the examples!
• Can't include Appscript
  2007-05-25 17:09:19  devaulw [View]
  
  
  The following worked fine with the gem. Rubyforge has more info.
  
  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  begin
  require 'rubygems'
  rescue LoadError
  end
  require "appscript"
  include Appscript
  puts app('Finder').name.get