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Ruby

Posted by Kristina Nelson
Kristina Nelson
4,196 Points

beginning ruby...

Hi,

Quick question. I opened up textmate and saved a file to my desktop, called hello.rb. I typed in puts "hello world" and saved it.

Next, I opened up my terminal, made sure it was not in irb mode, and typed in ruby hello.rb. The terminal than said there was not such a file or directory.

Any ideas of why this happened and how to fix it?

Thanks, Kristina

Leandra Tejedor
Leandra Tejedor
Courses Plus Student 318 Points

Did you type in "cd desktop" first?

Kristina Nelson
Kristina Nelson
4,196 Points

Well, no because I have a mac.

1 Answer

dima
dima
4,513 Points

Kristina, you have to change directories when you first open Terminal if you saved your file on the desktop -- so in this case, like Leandra said type "cd Desktop" and then "ruby hello.rb"

Kristina Nelson
Kristina Nelson
4,196 Points

Oh! Got it. Thanks.

Kristina