From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T03:39:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ominous quietude

From: "Fred Allen" <fallen@leveltwo.com>
Subject: FW: Ominous quietude
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 03:30:17 +0900

Hi,

 Yiu have started the ruyb interpreter itsself.
 Try to find and execute irb.exe (guessed,...I am working on a UNIX
 system, where there are no "*.exe"...they are name -- for example --
 simply "ruby" instead of "ruby.exe" -- therefore I think, that "irb"
 on UNIX must be "irb.exe" under windows.).

 irb is the "interactive ruby shell".

 ruby.exe ("ruby" on UNIX) is the interpreter which process textfiles
 with commands.

 Hope I could help a little.
 Dont hesitate to ask because who who do not ask will get no answers
 :)

 Keep hacking!
 mcc 

> Dear Sirs and Mesdames:
>  
> Yesterday I executed the Windows Quick Install of Ruby's release 18.
> 4.17rc2. I'm running Windows XP. 
>  
> When I initiate Ruby's interactive application (c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe) it
> seems strangely inert.  No prompt appears on the opened window (exact
> reproduction below). I believe the commands I tendered comport with the
> languages' rules of composition, but they remain, alas, unrequited. If
> any among you have a suggestion, I shall remain, 
>  
> Gratefully yours,
>  
> Fred Allen 
>  
> a = "Hello, world!"
> puts a
> a.class
> puts 225/15
>  
>  
>  
>