permissions problem when running Ruby

[Bev Bev]

I am having a permissions problem which no one else on the developement
team is having and no one knows how to fix it. I had talked with the IT
department and they checked a couple of things and said it was not a
standard Windows NTFS permissions error and they felt that it was an
application permission issue.

I am new to Ruby, so I do not know much.

I have a dirctory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\bin which has the script
login.rb. I have another directory c:\Workspaces\Watir
Testing\test_scripts which has the script CustomerSetup1.rb.

The CustomerSetup1.rb script is the one I need to run to run the test
and it calls the login.rb script.

When I go to the directory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\test_scripts and
type "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby -l ..\bin CustomerSetup1.rb", I get the following
message "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby: Permission denied -- ../bin (LoadError)".

I don't understand why I don't have permissions to access a directory on
my PC.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Bev

 

[Caleb Clausen]

I am having a permissions problem which no one else on the developement
team is having and no one knows how to fix it. I had talked with the IT
department and they checked a couple of things and said it was not a
standard Windows NTFS permissions error and they felt that it was an
application permission issue.

I am new to Ruby, so I do not know much.

I have a dirctory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\bin which has the script
login.rb. I have another directory c:\Workspaces\Watir
Testing\test_scripts which has the script CustomerSetup1.rb.

This is just a shot in the dark, but could it be because you have a
space in your directory names? That can cause problems for all kinds
of things on windows. Try taking the space out and see if it makes any
difference.

 

[Michael W Ryder]

I am having a permissions problem which no one else on the developement
team is having and no one knows how to fix it. I had talked with the IT
department and they checked a couple of things and said it was not a
standard Windows NTFS permissions error and they felt that it was an
application permission issue.

I am new to Ruby, so I do not know much.

I have a dirctory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\bin which has the script
login.rb. I have another directory c:\Workspaces\Watir
Testing\test_scripts which has the script CustomerSetup1.rb.

The CustomerSetup1.rb script is the one I need to run to run the test
and it calls the login.rb script.

When I go to the directory c:\Workspaces\Watir Testing\test_scripts and
type "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby -l ..\bin CustomerSetup1.rb", I get the following
message "c:\Ruby\bin\ruby: Permission denied -- ../bin (LoadError)".

I don't understand why I don't have permissions to access a directory on
my PC.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Bev

If you are using Vista or newer you might want to turn UAC off to see if
that fixes the problem. I had problems with UAC not allowing a program
to make changes to files and finally just turned it off rather than try
to figure out exactly what it needed.

 

[Bev Bev]

This is just a shot in the dark, but could it be because you have a
space in your directory names? That can cause problems for all kinds
of things on windows. Try taking the space out and see if it makes any
difference.

I tried removing the space and that didn't help.

 

[Bev Bev]

If you are using Vista or newer you might want to turn UAC off to see if
that fixes the problem. I had problems with UAC not allowing a program
to make changes to files and finally just turned it off rather than try
to figure out exactly what it needed.

I am running Windows XP Professional.