From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T05:26:33+09:00
Subject: Re: windows executables

On Jan 18, 2008 2:11 PM, MistryMan4000@Yahoo.com
<mistryman4000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How can I make my script run directly on the command line in windows like ruby is?
> ruby -w myscript.rb -o
> myscript -o
>

If you're using one of the latest one-click installers, this should
already work for you.  Here are some things to check.

# make sure the path to ruby.exe is in your path system environment
variable
C:\>path
PATH=c:\ruby\ruby186\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

# make sure .rb and .rbw are set in the pathext system environment variable
# if you need to change a system environment variable, make sure you
# set it in the gui, and not with the set command.  Otherwise the
# changes won't persist.
# Here's some info on how to do that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519

C:\>echo %pathext%
.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.RB;.RBW;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.tcl;.PSC1

# make sure the file associations are there.
C:\>assoc .rb
.rb=rbFile

C:\>ftype rbfile
rbfile=c:\ruby\ruby186\bin\ruby.exe "%0" %*