I recently received this message while running my first cucumber application on my XP development machine:
ruby.exe – Unable To Locate Component
This application has failed to start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem.
The solution turns out to be easy. Update old gems that still use ruby 1.8. In my case:
1. gem update –system
2. gem uninstall json
3. gem install json
In my case, this updated rubygems to 1.6.2, and json from 1.4.6 to 1.5.1.