From: "Darryl (gem dandy) Brown" <d-l-brown@...>
Date: 2010-01-01T07:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Path problems

On Dec 31, 4:14 pm, "Roger B. Atkins" <roger-b-atk...@cox.net> wrote:
> I am learning Ruby from scratch, using a beginner's book and have
> installed Ruby on my WIN Vista platform.  This is my first use of
> Ruby-Talk.  I hope the following questions/problems are within the scope
Hi Roger,

1) I've not seen Freeride distributed with the stock ruby
installation.
if you'd like to use it, it's here => http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=31

My suggestion starting out would be to use Notepad++


2) For errors that you get while running, it is best to post the error
verbatim to get the best help as opposed to describing the error.

$LOAD_PATH or $: can be set from with your program. A handy snippet to
add to the top of your programs is

$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) unless
  $:.include? File.dirname(__FILE__)

This will add the path of your file to the load path unless
it is already there.

If you want to know what your load path is, open an irb session
and enter   p $:


Have fun with Ruby,

Darryl





> of Ruby-Talk:
>
> 1.  The book says there should be two source/text editors, FreeRide and
> SciTE, but I only have SciTE.
>
> 2.  Using SciTE, F5 or Tools/Go, results in an error message to the
> effect that the system can't find my source file.  The only way I have
> found to run my program is from the command line, and then it only works
> if I use an old DOS path command, include the full path before the
> program name, or change to the directory in which the source file is
> located.  Is there a way to set path from within SciTE?
>
> Thanks,
>                RBA