[Minoss]

OK well I have been following the instructions here, http://pine.fm/Learn...ram/?Chapter=01, I did everything they say. But when is says type in ruby calc.rb in the command line, it doesn't work for me. I tried typing that in the windows command prompt, and the Ruby Interactive Console, but neither work. It says, a 3 should a appear but nothing ever does.

Please Help.

[noyesa]

Type

ruby -v

into your command prompt. You should get something like:

ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]

Your might vary quite a bit, this is on my work machine and I haven't updated it in some time.

If your computer tells you that it doesn't recognize the command, then you either don't have Ruby installed or it isn't in your PATH.

[Minoss]

OK, I did all of that and I got exactly this ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32], like you. But when I type in ruby calc.rb, it says "ruby: No such file of directory -- calc.rb (LoadError)."

Thanks

[EdwinNameless]

Minoss, on 13 Nov, 2009 - 03:44 PM, said:

OK, I did all of that and I got exactly this ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32], like you. But when I type in ruby calc.rb, it says "ruby: No such file of directory -- calc.rb (LoadError)."

Thanks

Did you really save the file as calc.rb? Are you running the command in the directory you have saved the file?

[YamNad]

You need to make sure you're running the command in the same directory you have the calc.rb file.

Type "cd " then the directory calc.rb is in to change it.

Then just do "ruby calc.rb"

[jaql]

Also, if you're trying to load a file from irb, make sure you're in the directory with the file in it when you start up irb. Then you can do:

load "filename.rb"