From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-05-19T06:13:58+09:00
Subject: Re: directing browser

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 03:30:50 pm Mark Kirby wrote:
> all i want to do is use my program to open a web page in my browser

Reposting your question as a new thread is obnoxious, especially when someone 
already answered it. You should instead reply to that thread and tell us why 
their solution didn't work.

> i am
> also useing shoes so it would look like this
> 
>  button("facebook"){#what goes here#("http://www.facebook.com/")}

That really changes very little. You may want to try with a commandline Ruby 
first, to make sure it's not a Shoes issue, but it shouldn't make a 
difference.

What changes a lot is which browser you're using, what you've tried, why it 
didn't work, and why Google didn't help you. Here's what I found by searching 
for "ruby open url in browser":

http://tinyurl.com/29rndr3

The very, very first result gives a Stack Overflow discussion about this very 
issue. The first two posts tell you two different, very easy ways to do 
exactly what you're asking.

> please please help this is driving me mad

Just the facts, please -- telling us how important this is for you is just 
more noise we have to read through to figure out what it is you're asking and 
how best to help you.

and add some punctuation while you're at it i for one hate reading tons of 
words put together like this without any sentence breaks or capitalization 
even a period or two would help