Ruby-mswin32

RJLyders

Boy, I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but I have spent several hours over 2 days on 2 different machines trying to simply run the Ruby interpreter. Every time I run the Ruby interpreter it just hangs up and never returns a prompt. I am runnning 1.8.4 on Windows XP. Does anyone have any idea as to why might be causing all of these problems?

postakutusu

I am experiencing the same on my Windows XP machine using the Cypwin port.

usa

How did you "run" the Ruby interpreter?
If you typed only "ruby" on command prompt, it's expected behavior. (Type Ctrl+Z and return, and you can escape.)
If you want to run ruby interactively, type "irb".