Which GEM to instal for TK?

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

require 'tk'
LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

Which gem do I need to install for getting Tk? I tried

gem install tk

but no such gem was found.

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I haven't used this in several years, but the tk_as_gem gem used to work to
add Tk to an existing Ruby.

(It would be advisable to just upgrade to a newer Ruby; they general have
Tk included.)

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ronald Fischer <lists@ruby-forum.com>wrote:

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

require 'tk'
LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

Which gem do I need to install for getting Tk? I tried

gem install tk

but no such gem was found.

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I got it from the Fedora repository, perhaps you may also get it from the Suse repository.
The package name was ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.....
Hope this help.

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I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

require 'tk'
LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

Which gem do I need to install for getting Tk? I tried

gem install tk

but no such gem was found.

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

On a side note: 1.8.6 is **really** outdated, and unless you have
a very good reason you shouldn't use it anymore and switch to 1.9.3
or 2.0.0. (Even 1.8.7 is not longer supported by the Ruby core team.)

require 'tk'
LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

Which gem do I need to install for getting Tk? I tried

gem install tk

but no such gem was found.

On Ubuntu, there is a libtcltk-ruby package, there might be something
similar for SuSE.

Regards,
Marcus

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Am 29.10.2013 16:35, schrieb Ronald Fischer:

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Eric Christopherson wrote in post #1126028:

I haven't used this in several years, but the tk_as_gem gem used to work
to
add Tk to an existing Ruby.

Indeed, the gem exists, but installation fails:

tcltklib.c: In function 'lib_eventloop_core':
tcltklib.c:1995: error: 'CHECK_INTS' undeclared (first use in this
function)

(same error on Linux and Mac). Seems that the implementation is broken.
The code part in question looks a bit like unfinished work:

#ifdef RUBY_USE_NATIVE_THREAD
        /* if (update_flag == 0) CHECK_INTS; */ /*XXXXXXXXXXXXX TODO
!!!! */
#else
        if (update_flag == 0) CHECK_INTS;
#endif

Actually, CHECK_INTS isn't defined anywhere, so I guess tests had been
usually done with RUBY_USE_NATIVE_THREAD being set and the error did not
show up.

I wonder whether it is safe to just remove this section from the code.
Or should I for the safe side contact the supporters of this gem?

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Maybe you should try ActiveTk: Download & Install Tcl | ActiveState

There may be a version old enough for you.

-Justin

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On 10/29/2013 08:35 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

require 'tk'
LoadError: no such file to load -- tk

Which gem do I need to install for getting Tk? I tried

gem install tk

but no such gem was found.

unknown wrote in post #1126034:

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Am 29.10.2013 16:35, schrieb Ronald Fischer:

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

On a side note: 1.8.6 is **really** outdated, and unless you have
a very good reason you shouldn't use it anymore and switch to 1.9.3
or 2.0.0. (Even 1.8.7 is not longer supported by the Ruby core team.)

I would like to switch too, but from what I know, the later versions
don't run on OSX 10.4.

Maybe they can be ported, but the one-click installer (which *is* very
convenient to use) only offers 1.8.6 for this platform.

Ronald

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Justin Collins wrote in post #1126116:

Maybe you should try ActiveTk:
Download & Install Tcl | ActiveState

There may be a version old enough for you.

There *might* be, but not free. ActiveState has the interesting price
policy, that they hand out the newer versions for free, but for the
older versions we have to pay a pretty steep price (999 US$ per user per
year).

BTW, I don't think that the problem is a missing Tk version on my
systems. On the Mac, I can happily use Python with tkinter (which is
their Tk binding), and on my Linux system I can run wish. The problem is
the interface from Ruby to Tk.

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I do not really know anything about OS X, but I'm pretty sure
newer versions should work. I guess commonly used tools like RVM
or homebrew(?) might help.

Regards,
Marcus

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Am 30.10.2013 10:42, schrieb Ronald Fischer:

unknown wrote in post #1126034:

Am 29.10.2013 16:35, schrieb Ronald Fischer:

I have Ruby 1.8.6 and gem 1.3.4 both on SUSE Linux and on Mac OSX 10.4
(Tiger). Both seemingly don't have the 'tk' module:

On a side note: 1.8.6 is **really** outdated, and unless you have
a very good reason you shouldn't use it anymore and switch to 1.9.3
or 2.0.0. (Even 1.8.7 is not longer supported by the Ruby core team.)

I would like to switch too, but from what I know, the later versions
don't run on OSX 10.4.

Maybe they can be ported, but the one-click installer (which *is* very
convenient to use) only offers 1.8.6 for this platform.

Ronald

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Oh then you should check out http://rdoc.info/stdlib/tk/

You might just need to adjust the Tk load path Ruby uses.

-Justin

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On 10/30/2013 02:32 PM, Ronald Fischer wrote:

Justin Collins wrote in post #1126116:

On 10/29/2013 08:35 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
Maybe you should try ActiveTk:
http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

There may be a version old enough for you.

There *might* be, but not free. ActiveState has the interesting price
policy, that they hand out the newer versions for free, but for the
older versions we have to pay a pretty steep price (999 US$ per user per
year).

BTW, I don't think that the problem is a missing Tk version on my
systems. On the Mac, I can happily use Python with tkinter (which is
their Tk binding), and on my Linux system I can run wish. The problem is
the interface from Ruby to Tk.

unknown wrote in post #1126077:

don't run on OSX 10.4.

Maybe they can be ported, but the one-click installer (which *is* very
convenient to use) only offers 1.8.6 for this platform.

Ronald

I do not really know anything about OS X, but I'm pretty sure
newer versions should work. I guess commonly used tools like RVM
or homebrew(?) might help.

Homebrew unfortunately doesn't run on OSX 10.4.

As for rvm, I don't know yet whether it will work, but getting it
running, will be a non-trivial effort. I would have to install a newer
bash version first, which is required by rvm, and also git and
subversion, and with all of this, it is not clear whether I can find a
version which is new enough for rvm, but still supported on my OSX.

Ronald

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Am 30.10.2013 10:42, schrieb Ronald Fischer:

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