From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T11:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Newby Help

Ron Gunsolus wrote:
> I've just found ruby and want to teach it to my son & myself, and have
> found several tutorials that will work fine, I've loaded ruby on my pc
> (the newest version) I've written a small sample program prog.rb - when
> i try to run it from the command prompt it doesnt recognize the
> command... It's been a dozen years since I've programmed anythig, and
> was never good, but think it may have something to do with my default
> paths?  Please help me just get ruby running properly - i tried looking
> through the posts, but didnt find anything in my searching, but i'm sure
> it because I didnt know where to look.  Many many thanks.
> -Ron

You need to give more information such as which platform (Windows, OSX, 
Linux), version, version of Ruby, how you installed it and how you tried 
to launch the program.

Also, these links might help you.

http://ruby.about.com/od/tutorials/a/installruby.htm
http://ruby.about.com/od/tutorials/ss/commandline.htm

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