From: Adam Akhtar Date: 2008-08-23T14:00:05+09:00 Subject: Re: How do I make an autonomous program? im a newb too so forgive me if my answer isnt what your looking for. Do you mean youd like to be able to juts call the script anywhere you want i.e. outside of the scripts path.. i think its something to do with load path google that or do a search on here for that As a side note the best book ive read so far for ruby newbys is "Everyday scripting with Ruby" - it has a chapter on this as well. I havent quite finished the book yet and its one of the later chapters but give it a look. Its not a reference and has exercises for you to practice what youve learned. You also find yourself going away experimenting with code as you read his examples as well. Its a bit more (only a bit though) advanced than learning to program by c.pine though. Also its all about scripting and writing scripts that are "useful" e.g. webscraping amazon etc. I think those two books should be read by every beginner -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.