From: "ToMaTo@..." <ustc.flyingfox@...>
Date: 2011-11-20T13:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run a program (Newbie)

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Hi,

You can do it like this:

Open windows command line interface then type "ruby
C:\Users\Otto\the\path\to\your\ruby\file"

When navigating to your ruby file, you can use tab key to automatically
complete the path.

Hope it helps.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Otto Dydakt <ottodydakt@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Another newbie question here:
>
> So: I've installed ruby. I've got the command prompt set up. If I run
> "puts 1" it returns "1" and "puts 1+2" returns 3. All seems good.
>
> Then I use SciTE to write a program called "calc.rb" The only line in
> "calc.rb" is "puts 1+2" and I expect that it will return "3"
>
> I get to the command prompt, which says "C:\Users\Otto>"
>
> I type "irb" to get into the ruby prompt, changing the prompt to
> "irb<main>:001:0>"
>
> The question is: how do I run the calc.rb program?
>
> My tutorial book says that I should type "ruby calc.rb" but this returns
> "NameError: undefined local variable or method 'calc' for main:Object
> from <irb>:1
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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>
>


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