From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T00:15:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Whats going on!?!?

On 10/2/07, Erik Boling <schmode93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok so I was programming perfectly fine earlier yesterday, then i got
> this idea about instead of going through cmd to open my program, why not
> just chose cmd as the program to open it?... bad idea i got this weird
> access denied error. Then it would do that to every program i tried to
> run, even new ones i made. Then i accidentally set scite as the default
> to open the files, so when i ran them in cmd  it would just open scite
> and show me the code. so i re-installed ruby, and the access denied erro
> still pops up when i try and run any ruby program? Any one know what i
> need to do to fix this?

While it may be possible to set Windows up to do this, I think it
would cause other problems; for instance, opening a new cmd prompt
each time you type it on the command line.  I changed the open action
on .rb files to run cmd.exe, and then I changed it back like this:

C:\>assoc .rb
.rb=rbFile

C:\>ftype rbFile
rbFile=cmd.exe "%1" %*

C:\>ftype rbFile="C:\ruby\ruby186\bin\ruby.exe" "%1" %*
rbFile="C:\ruby\ruby186\bin\ruby.exe" "%1" %*

The path to your ruby executable is probably different than mine.  Let
me know if that works.

Regards,

Gordon