= Well, I'm up to page 43 in Chris Pine's book and having a lot of fun, but I= still can't figure out two basic things. One is what I've already as= ked you about. I'm just going to paste what his book says so you can = see what I'm having trouble with:

Now let=E2=80=99s make a folder on your deskto= p in which you=E2=80=99ll keep all of your

programs. Right-click your desktop, select New, and then= select Folder.

Name it somethi= ng truly memorable, such as programs. Now doubleclick

the folder to open it.

To make a blank Ruby program, right-click in t= he folder, select New,

a= nd then select Ruby Program. You can rename the file if you want,

but make sure to keep the .rb fil= e extension, since that=E2=80=99s what tells your

computer this is a Ruby program (and not an email= or a picture of Mr.

Bea= n or something).

I have a feeling creating the folder will b= e important down the road but I just can't figure out how to do it. I= s my problem that I shouldn't be using 'interactive ruby'? That's wha= t I've been using for everything, which brings me to my second question; I = don't know how to make more than one line of a program at a time. Whe= never I type a line of program and press enter, I get the response. I= know there's got to be a way to fix this. I even tried typing lines = at a time in the editor and then pasting it into interactive ruby, but it s= till only reads one line at a time. Please help! I'm understanding al= l the programming I'm doing but these 2 basic, setup things, are driving me= crazy!

From: Derric= k B. <lists@ruby-forum.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 1= :11 PM
Subject: Re: ca= n't open new ruby program under "new" context menu

= =0ALee V. wrote in post #1090514:
> I just uninstalled what I had and= reinstalled using the steps given in
> the link you sent, but for so= me reason I still can't do what I'm trying
> to do. If you have= any familiarity with Windows at all, I'll try to
> explain what I'm = attempting to do. On windows, when you right click on
> the des= ktop or in a folder, one of the options you can click on says
> "new"= . From this you can choose a new folder, word document, etc. I'= m
> trying to make the "new" menu have an option to add a new Ruby Pr= ogram,
> because the Ruby Tutorial I'm reading by Chris Pine says tha= t's the next
> step. According to his book, the option should b= e under the "new" menu
> already.

I am very familiar with Wind= ows, so I do understand right-clicking the
desktop and being presented w= ith a menu. As you have seen by the types
of "new" items you can create by that menu, maybe when you install SciTE
(the Scintilla Te= xt Editor), it might add that option to the "new" menu.

Otherwise, i= f you already have that editor installed, it would probably
be just easi= er to open the editor and use its "Save as..." (assuming it
has that fun= ctionality) to save whatever Ruby file you create in SciTE
to any locati= on you choose.

Since you know how to right-click and choose "new" on= the desktop, how
about creating a folder on the Desktop called "My Ruby= Files", or
something, and you can use that as you location to store fil= es. Just a
thought, but I think just jumping into the editor and f= ollowing along
with Chris Pine's tutorial will get you going along just = fine.

Have fun with Ruby, I know I am!

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