From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-13T03:46:28+09:00
Subject: Re: eval.rb on cygwin

In article <u40ue7b1khsl41@corp.supernews.com>,
George Jempty <jb4mt@bbc.net> wrote:
>Greetings from the latest 'ruby nuby'.  I'm running Ruby 1.6 on Cygwin 1.3.6
>on Windows XP (home ed.).

Welcome.

>
>I have started with the excellent tutorial/user's guide at
>http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/ and have been able to run the first
>few examples, for instance 'fact.rb'.  However, the ruby 'shell': eval.rb,
>does not seem to have been included with the distro I got at
>http://www.familiehaase.de/cygwin/ruby: I used 'find' from / and there is no
>trace of eval.rb.

You know, I'd almost forgotten about Mark Slagell's tutorial.  It is very 
good and I recall using it when I was learning...

>
>Any suggestions as to where I can get this?  I searched this very newsgroup
>on google and found one match for 'eval.rb' and 'cygwin', from over a year
>and half ago (!!), with no mention of how to set up eval.rb on cygwin, but
>demonstrating that it has been done.
>

a few things:
1) On the page: http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/examples.html
There is a link to an 'enchanced eval.rb' which points to:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/~slagell/ruby/eval.rb
The code for eval.rb is there.
2) You can use irb to do essentially the same thing (I don't know if irb 
replaced eval.rb or what happended exactly).  If you type 'irb' 
(stands for 'interactive Ruby' I suspect) at the 
commandline you'll be able to do essentially the same as is done in the 
tutorial with eval.rb.
3) I did find eval.rb in the source distribution in the samples subdir, 
but if you're on Windows you probably don't have it (since you didn't 
build from source).

Hope this helps.

Phil