From: Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T22:30:52+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie mysteries

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i've actually got the same problem,
i used to be able to start ruby, irb or gems just by typing it, but that=20
doesn't work anymore (windows xp, cmd.exe)
it's really weird, i'm going to try to reinstall ruby, and see if it works=
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then..

 2005/9/11, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com>:=20
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> 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=20
> found
> > it again. Can you enlighten
> > me on this?
> >
> > I played around with the Scite editor and seemed only to execute=20
> programs.
> > Mondrian, however, seems able to execute whatever's in the focused=20
> window.
> > What's going on here?
> >
> > Now, rails, working in Mondrian...
> >
> > The page at http://download.rubyonrails.com/ advises executing this,=20
> 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=20
> (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 t=
o
> > work?
> >
> > -- t.
> >
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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> > Tom Cloyd
> > Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
> > << BestMindHealth.com / tc@bestmindhealth.com >>
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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> >
> > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client (program):
> > http://www.opera.com/mail/
> >
> >
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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.
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> 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.
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> So, after running the one-click installer for windows:
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> gem install rails --include-dependencies
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> should work from any command prompt.
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> If not, there is a path issue. Ruby is usually installed to C:\ruby by
> the installer- check your path.
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> 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.
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> Regards,
> Nick
> ---
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
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>

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