From: Jason Mayer <slamboy@...>
Date: 2006-12-27T22:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie with a weird technical problem (@ least I think it's weird)

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On 12/27/06, Jason Mayer <slamboy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On 12/27/06, will <will.graduate@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yep, as the post title implies, I'm a newbie.  Being a pragmatic newbie
> > I'd rather be learning to program, than searching for answers to
> > non-language acquisition questions/problems.  I'm pretty sure the
> > following falls in that latter group, so if it's in a manual somewhere
> > please tell me so _politely_ and point me to _the_ manual. :-)
> >
> > I'm starting to go through Dave Thomas' Programming Ruby/Picaxe (I'm on
> > pgs 25-26 2nd edition if you care) and I'm using TextMate/Terminal to
> > code and run modified versions of the book's examples.  So I ran a
> > version of the following with a typographical error, which was apparent
> > with the Terminal feedback.  So far, so good.  I fixed the error and
> > tried to run it again.  The problem is that now when I run it, all I
> > get in response is a new blank prompt.  I've tried renaming the file,
> > the class, giving it a completely new set of variables in the array and
> > quiting/restarting the Terminal.  If I type the _exact_ same thing into
> > irb I'm able to create a book and book2 instance and .inspect each of
> > them.  But with the TextMate/Terminal combo = Nothing, nadda, zip!
> > HELP, PLEASE!
> >
> >
> > #filename bib.rb
> >
> > class Book
> > def initialize(title, author, pages)
> >    @title   = title
> >    @author  = author
> >    @pages   = pages
> > end
> > end
> >
> > book = Book.new("Ruby Tutorial", "Dave", 831)
> > book.inspect
> >
> >
> > #terminal results
> > computer: me$ ruby bib.rb
> > computer: me$
>
>
> I plugged that into SciTe and added this line to the end.
> puts.book.inspect
> I hit f5 and got this:
> >ruby mailinglist.rb
> #<Book:0x28ae894 @title="Ruby Tutorial", @pages=831, @author="Dave">
> >Exit code: 0
>

Err.  puts book.inspect as others pointed out :P

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