From: Lee Jarvis <ljjarvis@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T01:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression. newbie problem.

Johnathan Smith wrote:
>> You are aware that you are trying to input ruby code into a unix shell, 
>> yes?
> 
> yes
> but then i tried in irb too but still having problems
> 
> h-3.2$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> name.rb
> NameError: undefined local variable or method `name' for main:Object
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0> a = Name.new("John Matthew Johnson")
> NameError: uninitialized constant Name
>         from (irb):2
> 
> i know im probably being very thick here but i appreciate the help

You need to require the file with the Name class in it.
But in this case.

Copy the code I gave you, (the class and the main code)
open up a shell and cd to the directory of the script and run:

~$ ruby name.rb

Regards,
Lee
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