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From: Kaye Ng on 27 Jul 2010 02:43 To James, I'm still on windows xp. I tried putting the calc.rb file inside the bin folder, and "ruby calc.rb" worked, as well as "calc" and "calc.rb" Is this what you guys were saying? The tutorial didn't say anything about the bin folder or where exactly to save the programs. It only said to make a folder wherein my programs could be saved, and that's what I did. But then it instructed to type "ruby calc.rb" and I got confused. I still don't understand the logic behind it. Do I have to bother with this? Do I always have to save my programs in the bin folder? Please excuse the ignorance. I'm a novice. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Jesús Gabriel y Galán on 27 Jul 2010 02:59 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kaye Ng <sbstn26(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > To James, I'm still on windows xp. > > I tried putting the calc.rb file inside the bin folder, and "ruby > calc.rb" worked, as well as "calc" and "calc.rb" > > Is this what you guys were saying? > > The tutorial didn't say anything about the bin folder or where exactly > to save the programs. It only said to make a folder wherein my programs > could be saved, and that's what I did. But then it instructed to type > "ruby calc.rb" and I got confused. > > I still don't understand the logic behind it. > Do I have to bother with this? > Do I always have to save my programs in the bin folder? > > Please excuse the ignorance. I'm a novice. No problem, we were all novices at some point in time. When you type "ruby" in the cmd window, Windows has to know to which program you refer to. For this, it uses the environment variable PATH, which contains a list of folders to search for executables. When you are in any folder in your system and type the name of a program, it searches in the current folder and then in all folders in that variable until it finds a suitable named program to run. If it doesn't find one, it spits the message "ruby is not recognized, etc, etc". A way to solve it so that you can call ruby from wherever folder, is to add the path to the ruby executable to your PATH environment variable. Others have explained how to do that in Windows (there are some menus to click and so on). With this, then you can place your rb files wherever you want, and call the ruby executable from that folder. Hope this helps, Jesus.
From: Jarmo Pertman on 27 Jul 2010 13:28 If you don't know how to change PATH variable in Windows (then you should learn it of course), then you can install Ruby again from http://rubyinstaller.org/ but this time check also the checkbox, which says something about "add to PATH". For some reason this is not checked by default. And please don't put your Ruby scripts into Ruby\bin directory - it will be a mess after a while. ----- Jarmo Pertman IT does really matter - http://www.itreallymatters.net
From: Swifty on 28 Jul 2010 04:35
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:28:56 -0700 (PDT), Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p(a)gmail.com> wrote: >And please don't put your Ruby scripts into Ruby\bin directory - it >will be a mess after a while. It used to be the habit of my employers to send us our PC's with a C:\$user directory already defined. Anything you put in here would be copied to your next PC by the migration process. I copy C:\$user to my memory stick as a precaution. So I create a C:\$user\tools directory for all of the little programs that I write, and the simpler ones that I download. So adding C:\$user\tools to the PATH variable, and adding ;.RB to the PATHEXT variable allows me to run C:\$user\tools\neat.rb with the command "neat" whichever directory I'm in. You have to learn to avoid conflicts with other programs that may take precedence; executing just "test" is asking for trouble as it may well not run your C:\$user\tools\test.rb -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk |