From: James Britt Date: 2007-11-26T06:41:15+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby on Vista problems Arto Kalishian wrote: > I have problems running the latest Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows Vista, and this > is (my guess) due to permission problems. > Maybe. I've been using Ruby on Vista Home for about 2 months now. Poor Ruby support is not among my many reasons to dislike Vista. OTOH, I disabled (as best I could) the annoying Please Ask Permission stuff early on. > I loved Ruby from first sight to the point that I started to hate VB > 2005 Express. But VB Express 2005, is to my dissapointment much more > compatible and easier to use on Windows Vista than Ruby. Well, what you're experiencing is perhaps Scite+Ruby on Vista. I'd suggest getting comfortable with doing things at the command line (even if you prefer a IDE-like editor). > So I beg of you > tell me of a clean and neat way to install Ruby on Vista without > encountering problems. Thanks, arto > > ================ > require ' yaml' # Told you it was easy. -----------^ misplaced whitespace! > > test_array = [' Give Quiche A Chance' , > ' Mutants Out!' , > ' Chameleonic Life-Forms, No Thanks' ] > > # Here' s half of the magic: > > test_string = test_array.to_yaml > > # You see? Kind of like "to_s", and it is in fact a string, > # but it' s a YAML description of "test_array". > > filename = ' RimmerTShirts.txt' --------------^ misplaced whitespace? > File.open filename, ' w' do |f| -----------------------^ misplaced whitespace! Are you cutting and pasting from someplace that is padding the clipboard text? You have a lot of quoted strings with a leading space. -- James Britt "If you don't write it down, it never happened." - (Unknown)