From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T04:10:57+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby

On 8/29/05, Steve <sdouglas949@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm new to ruby and programming (although I did dabble in BASIC with my
> Commodore 64 back in the 80's)  I'm running Ruby with Windows XP.  I'm
> having a problem when I run this simple program:
> 
> puts 'Hello, world!'
> puts ' '
> puts 'Good-bye'
> 
> When I run the program, a window appears that says "Hello, world!  Good-Buy"
> and then the window immediately disappears.  How do I get that window to
> stay open after it has run the program?

There might be an option (right click on the .rb file and choose
propeties) for making the window not close on exit.

Otherwise, an easy hack is to do something like
puts "hello world"
puts "we're quitting!  press enter now"
gets