From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T03:27:48+09:00
Subject: Re: interactive shell on windows

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, py wrote:

> Matthew Desmarais wrote:
> > No kidding!  Where did it say that?
> 
> Well for the One-Click installer for Windows, version 1.8.2-15 includes
> ProgrammingRuby.chm (under the ruby directory).
> 
> In that help file look under Preface/Running Ruby/Interactive Ruby
> ....copied/pasted below...
> 
> [excerpt]
> "Interactive Ruby
> 
> The easiest way to run Ruby interactively is simply to type ``ruby'' at
> the shell prompt.
> 
> % ruby
> puts "Hello, world!"
> ^D
> Hello, world!
> [/excerpt]
> 
> See :)

But you said:


After typing "ruby" i type,
puts "Hello world!"

....but I dont see Hello world! printed out.

So did you type the end-of-file mark for your system (which is what
ctrl-d means on unix)?

Then read 7 short paragraphs and you meet IRB, which has it's own
champter in the contents.
> 

        Hugh