From: Karl Halvorson <karl.halvorson@...>
Date: 2010-07-27T08:29:38+09:00
Subject: Re: basic beginner help needed

Thanks James!

The scripts are working from 'Start Comand Promp with Ruby' as you 
instructed. I think the problem with the command prompt before was not 
first switching to the directory where the .rb files are located. I 
think it is odd that the three or more tutorials that I have looked at 
do not mention this.

Thanks again for all your help.

James wrote:
>> entered the text
>>
> Looks that way here, too. Good work!
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>
> Sure thing. I ran your code and saw the same output. So you're doing
> everything right, this is something with scite. I have no real idea 
> what's
> happening to make the process hang, but a little research shows that 
> it's
> related to the call to gets, and further research shows that this is a 
> known
> problem with scite.
> 
> There's a solution, though! Running the script from the command prompt 
> will
> work fine.
> 
> StartMenu -> All Programs -> Ruby191 -> "Start Command Prompt with Ruby"
> cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Karl Halvorson\My Documents\Ruby\My
> Ruby Tutorial scripts"
> 
> Now run the script using ruby! Type:
> ruby "name of script"
> 
> 
> 
>>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 discusses environment variables,
> including the PATH. With the ruby windows installer, you get the 
> shortcut
> that we used above to start a command prompt with the right environment 
> for
> using ruby. However, if you want you set up your environment so that 
> it's
> always correct for running ruby from the command line, so that you can 
> use a
> regular command prompt to run ruby programs instead of needing to use 
> the
> specific shortcut that the installer gave you.

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