From: Henrik Horneber <ryco@...>
Date: 2004-11-04T20:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: irb problems on one-click windows installer

Robert Feldt wrote:

> Henrik Horneber wrote:
> 
>> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Feldt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a couple of students that use Ruby in a course and they've run
>>>> into a problem that is not my home ground since I don't run Ruby from
>>>> the one-click installer. But maybe some of you have seen this problem:
>>>>
>>>> After installing the latest one-click installer irb works from the
>>>> standard windows command line prompt (cmd) but they say they cannot use
>>>> curly {} or normal braces [] so cannot try out code easily.
>>>>
>>>> Can this be a problem with the one-click installer irb or is it their
>>>> windows setup?
>>>>
>>>> Any hints appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to get them to install cygwin and run from their but
>>>> they are stubborn... ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you using a non-english keyboard? If so, I know there are issues 
>>> here
>>> (which is beyond my expertise), but I have seen solutions posted to
>>> ruby-talk. Try this google search (for example):
>>>
>>>    site:blade.nagaokaut.aazc.jp ruby irb german keyboard
>>>
>>> Curt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/107774
>>
> Thanks to both of you.
> 
> Yes, they are on non-US keyboards.
> 
> Sorry I missed the posts. I will look around but the students are not on 
> mingw32 so I'm not sure there is an inputrc on plain windows. 


If they are using the latest One-Click-Installer, the instructions given 
by eban work. At least for me.

regards,
Henrik