From: Wayne Brissette <waynefb@...>
Date: 2011-11-20T19:19:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run a program (Newbie)

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On Nov 19, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Otto Dydakt wrote:

> The thing that is annoying to me is that this stuff isn't hard - but =
the=20
> book should tell you specifically where to create the programs=20
> directory. And it doesn't. I put it on my desktop, which seems to be =
why=20
> I was getting errors all night last night...


The thing to remember is the book is OS agnostic, what may work for you =
on a Windows computer may not work for somebody in Mac OS X, or Linux. =
Where to place files is left to your discretion. Even placing them on =
the desktop shouldn't have been an issue. However, when running any =
application the OS has to know the path to the file. In the case of =
Windows, the desktop is a folder that is located in the following path:

C:\Users\<your username>\Desktop\

If you were to run ruby, you would either have to first change to that =
directory or include the path when you ran Ruby, like this:=20

ruby C:\Users\<your username>\Desktop\calc.rb

that gets to be a bit unwieldy at times, so you're probably better off =
doing this;=20

C:>CD C:\Users\<your username>\Desktop\

C:\Users\<your username>\Desktop>

Then you can just use ruby calc.rb from the command prompt.=20

As Steve mentioned, Chris Pine's book is a great place to start.=20

Wayne

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