From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2011-06-13T03:32:51+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - require "rubygems"

On Sunday, June 12, 2011 07:00:32 AM Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> On 12 Ιούν, 13:38, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> 
wrote:
> > > Verification:
> > http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainObvious
> 
> Of course it's obvious, and as an (obvious) conclusion you previous
> statement becomes false.
> 
> "File association and path changing are very much optional, since
> Ruby
> will work without those. "

Ruby working is contingent neither on double-clicking nor on being in the 
system path. For this to be false, you would have to demonstrate that actually 
launching Ruby via a full path on the commandline does not work. I don't have 
a Windows machine, but I assume that

C:\path\to\rubyw.exe myscript.rb

does, in fact, work. I imagine you could also create batch files, or even 
plain Windows shortcuts, which launch Ruby scripts.

> I'm sure that the relevant people will realize that in context
> "newcomer", both options should be enabled by default.

If a "newcomer" is blindly installing software without reading and 
understanding options like these, perhaps programming isn't likely to be a 
strong suit for them?

> Topic closed.

That's not up to you.