Idris, Thanks. I'm a Mac person at home now, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to give this a try on a windows machine at school. What I'll try (unless I get further advice from this list) is download mswincontext.zip again, uninstall it, and NOT run first-setup.bat. Regarding Ruby, I am looking at this page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/ en/downloads/, where it seems like I have two options: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/29263/ruby186-26.exe And: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.7-i386- mswin32.zip Not sure I see anything on this page about "without RubyGems." Any advice? D. On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:27:37 -0600, wrote:

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All,

A bit frustrated as I cannot seem to get a mswincontext scite combination going. I gave up on: http://pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswintex.zip. I got absolutely nowhere with the installation and trying to connect scite.

So, I just downloaded: http://pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip

After extracting to c:\context, I ran the file first-setup.bat, which proceeded to install a lot of files. Was this a correct thing to do?

Not sure, but I did not do it :-)

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Strange, as the distribution size was already huge. It would really help to have a readme.txt in this distribution with installation directions.

After first-setup was complete, I ran cscite.bat. Scite opened. Good! I entered the usual test file:

\starttext Hello, World! \stoptext

And saved as test.tex.

Then I tried Tools->Compile, which resulted in this error mesage:

texmfstart concheck test.tex ruby: no such file to load--ubygems (LoadError)

Reinstall Ruby without RubyGems. That worked for me.

Best wishes Idris

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Hans, Idris, The only thing I know about Ruby is you used to install it in Windows so that Context thru Miktex would work. So, how do I get rid of the gems? D. On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

dwarnold45@suddenlink.net wrote:

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All,

A bit frustrated as I cannot seem to get a mswincontext scite combination going. I gave up on: http://pragma-ade.com/context/ install/mswintex.zip. I got absolutely nowhere with the installation and trying to connect scite.

mswintex is just a zipped minimal

...

So, I just downloaded: http://pragma-ade.com/context/install/ mswincontext.zip

that one has also scite, perl and ruby + some more

...

After extracting to c:\context, I ran the file first-setup.bat, which proceeded to install a lot of files. Was this a correct thing to do? Strange, as the distribution size was already huge. It would really help to have a readme.txt in this distribution with installation directions.

...

After first-setup was complete, I ran cscite.bat. Scite opened. Good! I entered the usual test file:

\starttext Hello, World! \stoptext

And saved as test.tex.

one option is to let setuptex be executed when you open a cmd prompt and then start scite from that (it's what i do here, since i do much on the console)

then scite knows in which env it lives

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Then I tried Tools->Compile, which resulted in this error mesage:

texmfstart concheck test.tex ruby: no such file to load--ubygems (LoadError)

might be some conflict between the ruby in the zip and the installed one; this gems stuff overloads the 'require' function in an incompatible way (as idris suggested, get rid of gems)

Hans

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I found all my gems problems were coming from an environment variable which pointed to rubygems. After I deleted it all the probs went away. You will nedd to search using set as I have forgotten the variable On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Hi David,

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:33:22 -0600, David Arnold wrote:

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The only thing I know about Ruby is you used to install it in Windows so that Context thru Miktex would work. So, how do I get rid of the gems?

From memory:

1. Uninstall Ruby completely;

2. Reinstall and choose custom install if that is available;

3. Uncheck the RubyGems option;

That's it!

setuptex.bat and the scripts that depend on it (like cscite.bat and my npp.bat) should work now.

Best wishes Idris

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I followed these directions exactly and scite is working out of the box on mswincontext.zip. To remove RubyGems from a single Ruby installation, from the site_ruby/1.8 directory of that installation, remove: * rubygems.rb (file) * rubygems (directory) If you do not have RubyGems installed in other Ruby installation directories, you can also remove the following files from whatever command directory is listed in your PATH: * gem * gemwhich * gem_server * gem_mirror * generate_yaml_index.rb And if you are removing RubyGems completely, don't forget to remove the RUBYOPT environment variable from your environment. Without actually trying it, I think that will do it. D. I also added import metapost in scite, but not all of the menu items on the tool menu work, in fact most of them don't work. Ctrl+6 doesn't open the console, I can't get gsview to work instead of gv, etc. D. On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

geoff.moyle@gmail.com wrote:

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I found all my gems problems were coming from an environment variable which pointed to rubygems. After I deleted it all the probs went away. You will nedd to search using set as I have forgotten the variable

ah, if we know that variable we can delete it in the startup script

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