From: Charles Roper <reachme@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T02:27:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a .rb file under Windows (beginner's question)

Assuming you installed Ruby using the RubyInstaller package, look in
the Start Menu for Ruby 1.9.2-p0 and select "Start command prompt with
Ruby". Now change directory (CD) to where your Hello.rb file resides;
i.e., type this and hit return:

cd "C:\Documents and Settings\brazee\My Documents\Code\Ruby\"

Now type Hello.rb and you should get the output of your program.
Alternatively, you can type: ruby Hello.rb

Hope that helps.

Charles

On 16 September 2010 17:55, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
> I just installed Ruby on a Windows XP machine.   At the start of the
> path is:
> C:\Ruby192\bin;
>
> I created
> C:\Documents and Settings\brazee\My Documents\Code\Ruby\Hello.rb
>
>
> How do I run it?   When I look at it in explorer, it has a Ruby icon.
>
> I cut and pasted a ruby program from the Web - but I suspect the first
> line doesn't fit this environment.
>
> (I'm going to try at home on my Mac and expect I'll have to make a
> change to that line there as well).
>
> --
> "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
> than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
> to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
>
> - James Madison
>
>