From: Hee-Sob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2000-12-02T10:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6731] Re: newbie: windows ruby file types


Hi,

"Ronald Jeffries" <RonJeffries@acm.org> wrote in message
news:670C0E3DD5BA7D73.4F80678D1E2D683E.52C98A3F22F4E782@lp.airnews.net...
> OK, Dave Thomas (the book one, not the hamburger one) talked me into

> However, when I click a .rb file, it opens a DOS window, runs the
> program, and closes the DOS window. I thought I'd look to see whether
> I could change that to leave the window open, on the off chance that
> I'd like to know what the program I just ran did.
>
> In Explorer View/Folder Options... I go to the File Types tab and get
> that delightful list of all the file types. I can't find the .rb type
> in there. I looked for the word Ruby - not there. I looked for the
> little ruby icon, which does show up on the files OK - not there. I
> clicked one at a time through the whole list and can't find .rb.
>
I can find RB entry in WinME.
>
> Any advice other than "go away" will be cheerfully accepted. Thanks!
>

Run Registry Editer(regedit.exe)
Goto [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rb\shell\open\command] entry
Its value must be like this

"C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" %1

Modify it to

command.com /k "C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" %1
(in Win95/98/Me)

or

cmd.exe /k "C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" %1
(in WinNT/2000)


> Ronald E Jeffries
> http://www.XProgramming.com
> http://www.objectmentor.com

Hee-Sob Park