From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T06:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows and Ruby

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:14:54 +0900, Regina Goodwin wrote:
>Hi, I have downloaded Ruby and I have purchased the book Teach
>Yourself Ruby.  I have W98 but I do not have Unix.
>
>My question is how do you compile your scripts?

You don't compile them; you just run them.
	ruby <scriptname>

If you were on a WinNT variant, then things could be set up so that 
you could run Ruby files directly from the command-line without a .rb 
extension. (It's possible to set up an explorer association, but 
you'll always have to put the .rb extension unless you're on a WinNT 
variant).

You can use exerb to create a .exe file from a Ruby script (which I 
will be doing myself).

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.10.21 at 17.33.28