How to install, and use "tidy" gem

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Hi,

Ruby newbie here.

I'm trying to install the gem tidy so that it can be used as a filter by webby.

I thought it was "gem install tidy" - but this tells me it is installed. - version 1.1.2!

There is a comment on the user maual (http://webby.rubyforge.org/user-manual/) that reads "The HTML Tidy application must be installed on your system, and the |tidy| executable must be available on the path.".

What does that mean? I can find no tidy.exe or tidy,com.

However webby tells me that tidy is not installed. (and Tidy is unknown).

So after gem has failed to make the gem available, what do I have to move where?

I tried copying C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tidy-1.1.2/lib/tidy.rb <cid:part1.04090403.08070006@ntlworld.com> /ruby/bin/tidy.rb but that hasn't sorted the problem

Thanks for your help.

Ian

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Ian Hobson wrote

Darn message was munged by Thunderbird and yours truly!

The copy was from

C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tidy-1.1.2/lib/tidy.rb to
/ruby/bin/tidy.rb

c:\ruby\bin is on my path.

Ian

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I'd say you need http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ installed on your system - as the documentation says.

Cheers

  robert

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On 01.02.2009 20:06, Ian Hobson wrote:

I'm trying to install the gem tidy so that it can be used as a filter by webby.

I thought it was "gem install tidy" - but this tells me it is installed. - version 1.1.2!

There is a comment on the user maual (http://webby.rubyforge.org/user-manual/) that reads "The HTML Tidy application must be installed on your system, and the |tidy| executable must be available on the path.".

What does that mean? I can find no tidy.exe or tidy,com.

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Robert Klemme wrote:

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On 01.02.2009 20:06, Ian Hobson wrote:

I'm trying to install the gem tidy so that it can be used as a filter by webby.

I'd say you need http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ installed on your system - as the documentation says.

Cheers

    robert

Thanks Robert,

All working now :slight_smile: I guess I confused the tidy gem with html tidy.

Regards

Ian

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Please watch out if you are using this in a long-running process, as
the tidy gem has a memory leak.

^ manveru

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ian Hobson <ian.hobson@ntlworld.com> wrote:

Robert Klemme wrote:

On 01.02.2009 20:06, Ian Hobson wrote:

I'm trying to install the gem tidy so that it can be used as a filter by
webby.

I'd say you need http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ installed on your system -
as the documentation says.

Cheers

   robert

Thanks Robert,

All working now :slight_smile: I guess I confused the tidy gem with html tidy.