From: Karl Halvorson <karl.halvorson@...>
Date: 2010-07-25T11:28:14+09:00
Subject: basic beginner help needed

I am new to Ruby and have been looking for some basic beginner help. I
have not been able to find a beginner forum anywhere, so I apologize if
this is too basic a question for this group.  I have installed ruby
1.9.1 on my windows 7 pc and have had success using interactive ruby
(and the Windows command prompt). Where I am stuck is creating a script
in notepad and then running that script. It seems a bit peculiar to me
that all the beginning tutorials that I have tried just say to create
these scripts, but they don’t mention where they need to be saved.  I
also have not come across any tutorials that cover configuring the ruby
file path. I believe I have written and named the scripts properly, but
when I try to open them, I get the error message:

 NameError: undefined local variable or method ‘hello’ for main:Object
 from (irb):1
 from C:/Ruby191/bin/irb:12:in ‘<main>’

Any help would be much appreciated.
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