From: James Toomey <jamesvtoomey@...>
Date: 2005-12-20T07:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: New to coding, lost as hell

Try opening the SciTe editor and typing
puts 'Hi There'
Now hit F5 to run this one-line script. Notice it wants you to save it
first. (This is so the SciTe editor knows what kind of program you're
running--if you give it a *.vbs extension, it knows this is a VbScript
file; if you give it a *.rb extension, it knows this is a Ruby file.)
Name it test.rb **and be sure*** to put it in a folder without spaces
in the name. Try putting in c:\temp. I have Windows 98 and it caused me
problems when I would save it to the "My Documents" folder because this
has spaces in the name and SciTe wouldn't run the script.
Now you should see the words "Hi There" appear on the right pane. The
right pane might be hidden; put your mouse over on the right border and
drag to the left. This was another problem I had because I couldn't
figure out why the result wasn't appearing, but it was because the
right pane was hidden.
Let me know if this works.