From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T22:22:20+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie mysteries

On 9/11/05, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com> wrote:
> Good morning!
> 
> I'm on a WinXP SP-2 box, and have installed Ruby, Gems, Mondrian editor.
> 
> I'm trying to use Gems to install Rails, and getting nowhere.
> 
> I'm confused by the apparent lack of an interpreter in Ruby. I thought
> there was one, but passed by the reference a while back and haven't found
> it again. Can you enlighten
> me on this?
> 
> I played around with the Scite editor and seemed only to execute programs.
> Mondrian, however, seems able to execute whatever's in the focused window.
> What's going on here?
> 
> Now, rails, working in Mondrian...
> 
> The page at http://download.rubyonrails.com/ advises executing this, after
> install of gems ...
> 
> gem install rails --include-dependencies
> 
> But I can't seem to pull this off.
> 
> In Mondrian, still, I get this output:
> 
> Executing 'ruby -C "C:/Documents and Settings/TC/My Documents/Ruby
> projects - Toms" "railsinstall.rb"'
> railsinstall.rb:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> railsinstall.rb:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> railsinstall.rb:1: undefined method `-@' for Object:Class (NoMethodError)
> Execution completed with exit code 1.
> 
> As a test, I then run this:
> 
> gem (install rails) #--include-dependencies
> 
> And get this output:
> 
> Executing 'ruby -C "C:/Documents and Settings/TC/My Documents/Ruby
> projects - Toms" "railsinstall.rb"'
> railsinstall.rb:1: undefined local variable or method `rails' for
> main:Object (NameError)
> Execution completed with exit code 1.
> 
> Can someone tell me what's happening, and what I need to do to get it to
> work?
> 
> -- t.
> 
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> Tom Cloyd
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> 

Did you use the Window's one-click installer to install ruby? If so,
gems would have been installed with ruby.

If you open a command prompt, typing "ruby" runs the ruby interpreter.
"irb" runs an interactive ruby interpreter. If Ruby Gems is installed,
running "gem" runs Ruby gems.

So, after running the one-click installer for windows:

gem install rails --include-dependencies

should work from any command prompt.

If not, there is a path issue. Ruby is usually installed to C:\ruby by
the installer- check your path.

Never used Mondrian, but some editors allow execution of an arbitrary
buffer or code selection, and others want a saved file (the only
definition of a ruby program I can think of ), so maybe that's the
difference.

Regards,
Nick
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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg