[thelist] A little Ruby help would be great [windows]

marcus m-lists at bristav.se
Sun Sep 25 03:28:46 CDT 2005


Oh, and by the way, Sitepoint now has a brand new ruby forum

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=227

And since you went with the one-click installer you also have a 
ProgrammingRuby.chm in your ruby install dir.

/Marcus

Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> I'm officially tearing my hair out. Either I've really missed something here or there are way too
> many experts running Ruby documentation.
> 
> All I want to know is how to get started - get the shell up so I can start learning - and I can't
> do it. 
> 
> I've downloaded the latest Windows one-click installer and installed it. Peachy. I've looked at
> the help docs, the get started, etc etc. NOTHING tells you how to really get started - or I've
> totally missed it.
> 
> I've tried launching the RubyGems RDoc server... it seems to run in a cmd window but tells me
> nothing. A RubyGems package manager? It searches for help it can't seem to find. How in the world
> do I get started with this? This is about the most maddening thing ever...
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> http://www.pixelmech.com/
> 
> A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart"! "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!"
> 
> Q: What do you call a muddy chicken who crossed the road two times?
> A: A dirty double crosser...
> 



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