From: Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@...>
Date: 2000-11-08T21:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6168] Re: emacs-mode

>>>>> "Johann" == Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za> writes:

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    Johann> I do not really understand the instruction in inf-ruby.el:

    Johann> ";;; (0) check ruby-program-name variable that can run
    Johann> your environment."

    Johann> Can somebody explain it to me please?

Of course,

sometimes it may happen that ruby (the interpreter) is not able to
find the irb.rb if it is not laying anywhere in the path. If it would
be in the path, you could simply perform

  ruby -S irb

to start it. But since (I don't know for sure) 1.6 the irb is
delivered together with the standard Ruby distribution. It will be
installed into the .../1.6/irb subdirectory. Now you have to use

  ruby -rirb/irb -e0

to start the irb. But you have to tell the inferior ruby shell how to
perform:

   (setq ruby-program-name "ruby -rirb/irb -e0 -- --inf-ruby-mode")

Now it should work!


HTH,
\cle


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