From: Adam Sroka <adam.s@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T11:58:32+09:00
Subject: Re: New to coding, lost as hell

Adam Shelly wrote:
>> I'm currently running Windows 98 (I don't need any more, so no reason to
>> update) and the Ruby install comes with some documentation and FreeRIDE
>> and SciTE editor. It seems FreeRIDE is the thing to use for basic stuff.
>> So I open it and type in something basic (Print 'hello world') and run
>> it.
>>
>>     
> Did you try SciTE?  As far as I remember, it worked out of the box
> when I installed, no configuration needed.
> Just open it, write a test command, save it with a .rb extension, and hit F5.
>
> -Adam
>   
According to the wiki, FreeRIDE is built on top of SciTE, which is also 
why it is bundled with it.

BTW, to the original poster: if you are not interested in upgrading from 
Windows 98, could you be convinced to try one of the many great Linux or 
BSD distros? I can see why you wouldn't want to spend $299 for the 
latest Windows, but 98 is perhaps the worst OS ever written (Actually, 
the "perhaps" is not called for.) And, learning a *nix would be a good 
intro to programming since many of the concepts are the same (And using 
irb isn't that different from shell programming.) Just a thought.