From: Ashley Wharton <ashleywnj@...>
Date: 2008-02-23T09:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorry very newbie post!

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As someone who is very new and just recently finished Chris's book I would
recommend the NetBeans IDE for Ruby (slimmed down version) ... it's a very
easy way to write and run the code.

Regards,

Ashley

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Steve <stevecuth@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Ok so I just got myself Chris Pines book and started with the
> questions in it and the first short prog I type in SciTE is
>
> puts 'Hi, what\`s your first name? '
> name = gets
> puts 'your name is ' + name
>
> save it and run and get a command box which waits for me to exit and
> then get the message
> H what\`s your first name?
> Exit code: -1073741510
> eh??. Not looking good!. (Tried it with RDE and even the `i` was
> missing in that one?) . Chris wrote the book using Ruby version 1.8.2
> and I`m using 186-26 which is probably where the fault lies anyone
> suggest me where I`m going wrong please?
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
>

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