From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T03:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ominous  quietude

From: "Fred Allen" <fallen@leveltwo.com>
>
> 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).

Hi,

For interactive ruby, try "irb" instead of ruby.exe.

ruby.exe invoked with no parameters reads a script from stdin
(standard input) and will execute it when end-of-file is
reached.  (On windows, you can use control-Z to type and
end-of-file character.)

But for an interactive ruby session, try irb.


Hope this helps,

Bill