From: "Marvin Gülker" Date: 2010-10-10T07:22:40+09:00 Subject: Re: irb question Darren Nickerson wrote: > Hi, > Iam starting to learn ruby, today is my first day actually working with > terminal and things are going pretty good. I just have a quick question, > when I go into irb the book I am reading ("Ruby novice to professional" > from apress ) tells me that there should be irb(main):001:0> each line, > but for me all I have is >> > all the ruby commands work fine. I just don't like not having the line > numbers. This is probably very simple but please help a newbie out. > Thanks for your time. Try starting irb like this: irb --prompt-mode default Marvin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.