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[xmtoxm]

When I go to command prompt and type in...
ruby hello.rb
Thats what I saved my program as. the output is ...
hello.rb is not recognized as an internal or external command. Operable program or batch file.
I am so frustrated. Can anybody help me please?

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Would this work?:
ruby ./hello.rb

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Or the other thing, did you save hello.rb in the documents folder? If so, try this:
chdir %userprofile%\documents
ruby hello.rb

[xmtoxm]

I tried that it did not work.
Thanks though.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I am surprised that there is a 'ruby' command in Windows (or is it Windows?).

On my computer it's more like this:
chdir desktop
\ruby\bin\ruby file.rb

Have you tried saving the *.rb file to C:\ and then this?:
ruby \hello.rb

[mebob]

If you are working on Windows it would be a good idea to add ruby's bin directory to your path. Then you can access it as just 'ruby'.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Do OpenFile () and similar functions check the bin directory?

Because my written-from-scratch web server requires server-side scripts to have the path to the interpreter at the top like this:

#!/strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe 


print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n"; 


[I]... some more code ... [/I]

The HTTP/1.0... response line is not required, and if omitted it would be added, but the double-"\r\n" sequence is required, and is not checked for; I'm talking about my server.

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@xmtoxm: Did you find the solution yet?

[xmtoxm]

Thanks for answering back you guys. I really appreciate it.
mebob could you explain what to add to the ruby's bin of the directory. Thanks.

RhetoricalRuvim's I have not found the solution. I have tried what you have said but no luck.

[xmtoxm]

I finally got ruby working on my computer. "Throws confetti"