From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-05-13T20:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: help to run Ruby

On May 13, 8:31 am, "balzer" <nos...@news.eternal-september.org>
wrote:
> "Thomas Volkmar Worm" <t...@s4r.de> wrote in messagenews:850qlfFd63U1@mid.uni-berlin.de...
>
>
>
> > BTW: If you use 4nt from jpsoft, which is a cmd.exe replacement,
> > you can do the following:
>
> > set PATH=E:\Ruby\bin;E:\Ruby\myprogram-beta1\sources\scripts\embed;%PATH%
> > set .rb=ruby.exe
>
> > The last one says, treat ruby scripts as executables through ruby.exe.
>
> > lets say, your script is myprog.rb then you can call it like this:
>
> > C:> myprog
>
> > But if the path to your prog only contains one ruby script worth starting
> > directly, it does not make much sense to put its directory into PATH.
> > Then you could setup an alias to achieve the same:
>
> > alias myprog=E:\Ruby\myprogram-beta1\sources\scripts\embed\myprog.rb
>
> > get 4nt. jpsoft has a free version and it is really worth testing. On
> > windows I use it for years.
>
> > 4nt has a file 4start.btm (or so) where you can put such settings in.
> > Then when you start 4nt, everything is setup automatically. Another nice
> > thing about 4nt: It comes with an installer, but you can take the 4nt-
> > directory and move it somewhere else, eg. onto an usb-stick. This way I
> > run a full sack of software: ruby, perl, python, java, php, mysql,
> > apache, firefox, thunderbird, openoffice and another 50-100 open source
> > software packages.
>
> > But if you want to stick with cmd.exe, you could do it this way:
>
> > make a bin-folder lets say in E:\bin and put it into PATH
>
> > set PATH=E:\Ruby\bin;E:\bin;%PATH
>
> > Then but a bat-file into E:\bin with the name of your prog, myprog.bat:
>
> > --- snip ---
> > @echo off
> > setlocal
> > ruby E:\Ruby\myprogram-beta1\sources\scripts\embed\myprog.rb %*
> > --- snip ---
>
> > %* passes all the arguments you give to the bat-file to your ruby script.
>
> > now you can call your prog
>
> > C:> myprog
>
> > Thomas
>
> ---------------------
> I use Ruby without installer, ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32
> Just tried to run script , but got error: "The application has failed to
> start because SSLEAY32.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may
> fix this problem."
> Here is part of output printed in DOS window:
>

Using the mswin32 downloads form ruby-lang requires you additional
instructions, as noted in the ruby-lang download page:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

"Please note that some of the above binaries will require manual
download and installation of additional components detailed on this
page. Please ensure you’ve followed/performed these steps prior
reporting a bug."

And if you keep reading:

"The RubyInstaller does not require these additional tasks."

The RubyInstaller binaries are here:

http://rubyinstaller.org/

--
Luis Lavena