[kkslider55]

Hello. I am extremely sorry if this is misplaced, and if that is the case, just tell em so and I'll seek help elsewhere.

Basically, I am trying to learn Ruby. I have been following This tutorial, and I've ran into a problem with the very first step...

Basically, I can't get command window to do anything. It says to type the following into an editor and save it as p001hello.rb

# p001hello.rb  
puts 'Hello'  
p 'hello'  
print 'hello' 

And I did. Then it tells me to type the top line into the command window, and the bottom should show. So I type in:

c:\rubyprograms> ruby p001hello.rb 

and I get:

-1:1: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tSTRING_D
BEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END
C:\rubyprograms> ruby p001hello.rb
   ^
-:1: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting keyword_do or '{' or '<'
C:\rubyprograms> ruby p001hello.rb
                               ^

So... If anybody could shed some enlightenment on what I did wrong, I'd be very grateful. Ruby seems like a very exciting language to learn, and it would be tragic if such a small thing kept me from learning.

[xclite]

That's interesting - I typed up the same program with the same name and it ran successfully. That definitely looks like ruby interpreter errors. What version of ruby are you running? This can be found by typing ruby -v at the command prompt.

This post has been edited by xclite: 19 February 2011 - 02:40 PM

[kkslider55]

ruby 1.9.2p136

[kkslider55]

Just bumping along, hoping someone can help.

[xclite]

Yeah I've been looking into it but haven't been able to figure it out - is the code in your original post the entire program, exactly as you typed it? I did exactly what you said and had no issues running it.

[kkslider55]

Yeah, that's letter for letter how I typed it. =/I tried re-installing it and I've tried re-typing probably ten million times. I'm thinking maybe it's the computer.

I'll try a different computer, I guess.

[Sergio Tapia]

I ran your code and it works just fine.

[T3hC13h]

Make sure your file is ANSI encoded.

[DillonSalsman]

I find it confusing that the error message is the parsed line..
Are you running the installer as an administrator if on Vista/7?
Try using interactive Ruby by typing "irb" at the command line.