From: Francesco Vollero <ravenz@...2.ie>
Date: 2010-05-30T20:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Another complete beginners question

Il 30/05/10 13.20, Josh Cheek ha scritto:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Emma Pidre<equisigriegazeta@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi, i am in Osx and i had installed Ruby 1.8.7. I want to make a
>> tutorial, i am a beginner in ruby. My problem is that when i want to
>> execute a program on ruby, example: code.rb, with "ruby code.rb" on
>> Terminal, like all tutorials sais, a error come back: "-bash: code.rb:
>> command not found"
>>
>> Well, there is a part that i am missing. Please help me.
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
>>      
> Expounding on Francesco's answer:
>
> # add a shebang to the top of a file called hello_world.rb
> # this directs the system(?) to use Ruby to interpret the file
> $ echo '#!/usr/bin/env ruby'>  hello_world.rb
>
> # append a statement that will output "hello world" to hello_world.rb
> $ echo 'puts "hello world"'>>  hello_world.rb
>
> # set permissions of hello_world.rb so that you can execute it
> $ chmod 755 hello_world.rb
>
> # execute hello_world.rb and see that it outputs "hello world"
> # the ./ in front is important, it says the file is located in the current
> directory
> $ ./hello_world.rb
> hello world
>
>    
You're right, maybe my answer can get someone confused, to be 100% sure, 
Josh, let me write a ruby script :)

ruby_sample.rb:
--
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

puts "hello world"
--

and after you've to do what Josh say i mean, 3rd and 4th step.

-Francesco