Installing Watir via the gem utility

The install should be as simple as dropping into dos, cd to your Ruby folder and run the command:
gem install watir

Unfortunately it wasn’t that simple for me, we work via a proxy here so I had to tell the gem utility about it.

Running gem install when you are behind a proxy

Set the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

Example:
set HTTP_PROXY=http://mycache:8080

You can now run:
gem install watir

Gem will now go off download and install the latest Watir package, version 1.4.1 in my case. Be patient this can take some time depending on server load.

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