From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2006-04-12T16:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: a newbie. not getting run a script

san wrote:

>hi jeff/ john and all others
>
>i have tried all the methods above but in vain
>line by line commands are being executed but i could not run the program 
>as a whole
>
>i have a screenshot of the commands. if you can plese look into it and 
>give your comments where i am going wrong. the first lines are same as 
>that in the file count.rb
>
>since i could not upload image in this forum, i have created a blogger
>http://santanusasmal.blogspot.com/
>
>regards
>santanu
>
>  
>
you must exit from irb before you can run the command irb -v, similarly 
with the other commands that refuse to work.  irb is the interactive 
version of ruby, it's not meant for running scripts.  to run a script, 
open a new cmd prompt window and type in something like

ruby my_script.rb

Good luck
Kev