Using gems with Shoes

[SankarMS]

I'm trying to build a simple shoes application using the httparty gem. I have ruby installed in C:\Ruby200-x64 and Shoes 3 installed on my Windows 8 machine. I opened a cmd window and navigated to C:\Ruby200-x64 and did gem install httparty and it installed everything. At the top of my shoes code I have

Shoes.setup do
  gem 'httparty'
end

require 'httparty'

Shoes.app do
...
end

But then everytime I run shoes and open up the .rb file, it says Error while installing httparty. WHERE exactly am I supposed to put this gem file? Or how can I tell shoes to look in the ruby directory?

[steveklabnik]

Shoes embeds its own Ruby, so 'gem install httppartywon't get it in your Shoes. Depending on which JSON/XML libraryhttpparty` chooses, it has a C extension, so it won't work with Shoes unless you build a custom one.

I suggest you try out Shoes 4 (shoes/shoes4) or Green Shoes (ashbb/green_shoes) instead, they're being worked on instead of shoes/shoes for exactly this reason.