From: Wayne Brissette <wbrisett@...>
Date: 2013-01-07T20:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question what am I doing wrong?


On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Lee V. wrote:

>> I'm curious -- are you running in windows, and starting the program
>> from explorer? The behaviour you describe makes me believe so. If that
>> is so, instead try running it from a command prompt so the window
>> won't close when the program exits.
> 

Since you mentioned Windows, substitute command prompt for DOS prompt. Once you open a DOS prompt, simply type:

irb

that's the interactive Ruby interpreter. For more details see: <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/>