From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T22:05:31+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby

Steve 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?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Steve 
>  
>
I prefer to have the command prompt open - putting it in the quicklaunch 
bar was the first thing I've done after I installed the system ;) IIRC, 
the One Click Installer for Windows sets up both PATH and PATHEXT so you 
can run a file called "hello.rb" by typing only "hello" at the command 
prompt - just like you'd run a .BAT file.

David Vallner