From: Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen@...>
Date: 2002-08-17T06:49:43+09:00
Subject: RE: For Windows users only...

> From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com] 
> 
> From: "Brian D. Baker" <baker.921@osu.edu>
> 
> > Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> > > At the command line, that is.
> > > 
> > > Problem: When you run a .rb file from the
> > > command line, you have to type a (potentially
> > > lengthy) command.
> > > 
> > 
> > Run msconfig from Start Menu->Run.  Under the "Environment" tab of
the
> > program that opens, there is a variable called PATH.  The value of
path 
> > is a semicolon delimited list of directories.  Add C:\RUBY\BIN (or 
> > whatever directory holds ruby.exe on your computer) to the PATH
variable 
> > and apply the changes. You might have to restart, but you won't have
to 
> > type the full path to ruby ever again!
> 
> Thanks. I'm well familiar with PATH. But I don't
> like typing this sort of thing:
> 
>   ruby -Ithis -Ithat -Ithe_other myprog.rb
> 
> But I don't want to put *everything* in RUBYLIB, 
> either.
> 
> Basically I was trying to 
>   1. Just type "myprog"
>   2. Get Windows to honor the #! line
>   3. Avoid the problems with batch files
> 
> I know: I should just run Linux all the time...

Look up the assoc and ftype commands and the pathext environment
variable. (It will let you type just myprog, you don't even have to type
myprog.rb <wink>)

-- bjorn