Help Ruby with Vista

[Bill Kirschner]

So I have used Ruby problem free on Windows XP however I am having
problems using Ruby with Windows Vista. When I double click on a script
that I have writen to run it the command prompt comes on and then
dissapers. I think my program is executing just fine only I can never
see it.
This same thing happens when I am using Scite, only with Scite I can
tell that the program has executed because of the Output side of Scite
shows me it is working. I just cant see it run in the command prompt.
Kind of frusterating, please help me. I never had a problem like this
with XP.

Thanks for your replies,
Bill

 

[Luis Lavena]

So I have used Ruby problem free on Windows XP however I am having
problems using Ruby with Windows Vista. When I double click on a script
that I have writen to run it the command prompt comes on and then
dissapers. I think my program is executing just fine only I can never
see it.
This same thing happens when I am using Scite, only with Scite I can
tell that the program has executed because of the Output side of Scite
shows me it is working. I just cant see it run in the command prompt.
Kind of frusterating, please help me. I never had a problem like this
with XP.

I'll suggest you open a command prompt and have it all the time,
instead of rely on Scite or any other IDE console output.

I also suggest you use a more powerful console interface [1] instead
of simple Windows Command Prompt.

AFAIK, my installation of Windows XP with One-Click installer behave
the same way you described, but that is normal behavior since it's
calling ruby.exe which is a console application.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/console

HTH,

 

[Bill Kirschner]

I'll suggest you open a command prompt and have it all the time,
instead of rely on Scite or any other IDE console output.

I also suggest you use a more powerful console interface [1] instead
of simple Windows Command Prompt.

AFAIK, my installation of Windows XP with One-Click installer behave
the same way you described, but that is normal behavior since it's
calling ruby.exe which is a console application.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/console

HTH,

thanks I will try it.

 

[Jari Williamsson]

So I have used Ruby problem free on Windows XP however I am having
problems using Ruby with Windows Vista. When I double click on a script
that I have writen to run it the command prompt comes on and then
dissapers. I think my program is executing just fine only I can never
see it.
This same thing happens when I am using Scite, only with Scite I can
tell that the program has executed because of the Output side of Scite
shows me it is working. I just cant see it run in the command prompt.
Kind of frusterating, please help me. I never had a problem like this
with XP.

Use rubyw.exe rather than ruby.exe


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson

 

[Bill Kirschner]

Use rubyw.exe rather than ruby.exe


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson

Thanks for your comments. Just wanted to thank you guys for your quick
responses and apologize for all of my spelling errors. I wrote this late
last night after getting off of a ten hour shift. I must have been
tired. Thanks again guys.