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Ruby

Posted by Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

Brand new to ruby and irb

when I type irb in the cmd prompt it says 'DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle irb(main):001:0>'

instead of 'ruby 2.0.0p247 :001'

what does that mean and it is a problem?

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

As I said above, its just a warning. It wont affect the development process as you follow along in the videos, though you may see the warning each time you run IRB.

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

great! thank you very much :D

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

did you install using the rails installer for windows?

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

No it didn't say anything about a rails installer in the video

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

try switching to ruby 1.9.3 and see if you get the same error

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

before I do that, I would like to know why it's saying that, if it will cause any problems with running ruby code in the future.. I have gone through several other videos after the one about installing and haven't had any issues besides that message so far. If I can stick with the most recent version of ruby and still have everything run well I would prefer that because, in my experience in web development, the most recent version of anything is usually the best version.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

well its just a warning that DL is deprecated and you are seeing the warning because you are using a windows enviroment, while the treehouse videos are using a OS X enviroment, which would explain why it didnt occur in their video. Nothing should change. If you want more information see this