1 hr into Ruby

[BillyG]

How do I make my XP console window not close so fast?

Very basic yes, but I've looked high & low... TIA.

[xmitchx]

What are you doing with it? The console window will close once the program that oppened it finishes running. But if you go to start -> run -> cmd then it'll stay open until you close it... you can just run the programs from there.

[BillyG]

I'm running the very basic 2 or 3 line prgs just to get a feel for Ruby and since the console closes right away, I'm not learning anything. Unless there is a Ruby cmd that I can use with each .rb or a Ruby (or Windows) setting that I can use to keep the console window open, how do I see the output? TIA.

[xmitchx]

How are you running them? To run .rb files I do ths ina command prompt:

ruby bla.rb

That would keep it open. But if I double click a RB file, the command prompt will close immediately after the program finishes executing (as it should).

[BillyG]

I see, I was running from the Explorer window, it does as you said from the console though, thx.

[Fenrir2]

This window:

puts "Hello World!"
gets

Will not close until you press [enter].

[Homan]

Why not use interactive ruby to try out a few lines of code?

Start > Run > Cmd

At the prompt, type 'irb' then hit enter

[xmitchx]

yes that'd be good but I got the impressoin here that he was just trying to run a ruby application...

[samsm]

Why not use interactive ruby to try out a few lines of code?
Start > Run > Cmd
At the prompt, type 'irb' then hit enter

This is the Cadillac of programming language learning.