From: "Clinton D. Judy" <cdj@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T00:59:30+09:00
Subject: Re: irb shell exit

Sometimes I open a parentheses without closing it, or a DO without an
END, or a { without a }... Once you get the hang of Ruby's pretty loose
syntax, you'll also realize you forgot to close something. That's not
what you did in the screenshot, but I'm warning you for next time. ;-) I
forget to do that all the time.

If all else fails, I hit CTRL+C, but I don't know if that causes
problems. Someone have a better understanding?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Powell [mailto:nathan@nathanpowell.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:36 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: irb shell exit

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:27:07AM +0900, Scott Harper wrote:
> I am totally new to programming so this may sound stupid, but I would
> appreciate help.
> 
> I am following along in the the Simply Rails 2 book and I am entering
> classes etc. into the irb shell in the ruby console window. The
problem
> I am having is that sometimes I enter the wrong command and I can't
> figure out how to exit the irb shell. I have tried typing "exit" and
> that works sometimes, but sometimes it doesn't. The issue arose once
> after I hit the Tab key and the other time i don't think i pressed
> anything out of the ordinary.
> 
> Please see screenshot for clarification.

It looks like you typed irb twice.  Once to get into the shell, and once
while in the
shell.  I see though that you are using windows, and I have no idea how
irb works on there, but I would have thought it was similar.

npowell@delilah ~ $ irb 
>> irb
>> exit
=> #<IRB::Irb: @context=#<IRB::Context:0xb7a2d840>,
@signal_status=:IN_EVAL, @scanner=#<RubyLex:0xb7a2d4a8>>
>> exit
npowell@delilah ~ $ 





> 
> Can someone please help?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> 

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