From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T01:36:59+09:00
Subject: Re: strange error when running "ruby -version"

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:29:33 +0900, +jeff <zuk_ini@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used the latest windows installer from
> http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org.  I'm in windows XP.  The error
> looks like so:
> 
> C:\eng\other-sw\wtr\watir\unittests>ruby -version
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32]
> -e:1: undefined local variable or method `rsion' for main:Object
> (NameError)
> 


It should be: ruby -v (not ruby -version).

In your example, it sees "-v" and then "-e".  The stuff after "-e"
gets executed, so it thinks you're trying to run a program with a
single method call to "rsion".

For an example, if you did: ruby -vegets
It would print the version and wait for you to hit enter on your keyboard.

Chad