From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T16:44:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Try to run ruby on windowsxp

Mohsen Akhavan wrote:
> Hello all
> I tired to run this program on the command prompt of windows
> Xp
> Puts “Hello world” and I encounter the following error:
> 
> “Puts is not recognized as internal or external command.
> Operable program or batch file “
> 
> Please help me ,sincerely yours Mohsena
> 


The Windows command shell expects to be given Windows shell commands, 
not Ruby commands.

Try

ruby -e 'puts "Hello, world!"'

(You need to give the name of the ruby interpreter so Windows knows what 
to execute, and the tell Ruby that it should execute the string that 
follows.  That's what the -e is for.  )

James

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