From: Quintus <quintus@...>
Date: 2012-08-04T06:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInstaller

Am 03.08.2012 23:36, schrieb Cale B.:
> Hello forum,

Hi Cale,

> I'm following a called Cooper: Beginning Ruby���and the book is written
> and using 1.8.5, so maybe that is the problem���and it says I will need a
> Ruby program called "fxri" that should come with the RubyInstaller.
> However, it does not.

1.8.5 is far too old. Current is 1.9.3. Back then RubyInstaller was
called One-Click Installer if I remember correctly.

> So...basically, if I confused anyone, is it no longer possible to have
> fxri on Windows? If not, then how can I properly install it and use it?

Fxri is old and buggy. Use the two tools it combines directly: irb and
ri. To use them, open up your system���s commandline (cmd.exe on Windows),
type "irb" (without the quotes) and hit Return. This will give you an
interactive Ruby prompt. To read the Ruby documentation on the
commandline, you can do likewise with "ri", just enter something like
"ri exit" to get docs on the #exit method and you should be settled.

Vale,
Marvin

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