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Ruby

Jordan Anderson
Jordan Anderson
19,560 Points
Posted by Jordan Anderson
Jordan Anderson
19,560 Points

Ruby basics - running a program in your terminal

Hello all!

I am working on the ruby basics course. I was following along with the video using my own terminal. However, when I created a file like hello.rb with TextMate and tried to run in it my terminal i got:

Jordans-MacBook-Pro:~ JNA$ ruby hello.rb ruby: No such file or directory -- hello.rb (LoadError)

Why can it not see the file sitting on my desktop? Do I need to place the file in a specific directory/location?

2 Answers

Michael Wiss
Michael Wiss
19,233 Points
Michael Wiss
Michael Wiss
19,233 Points

did you try "cd desktop"?

Jordan Anderson
Jordan Anderson
19,560 Points
Jordan Anderson
Jordan Anderson
19,560 Points

Michael you're a genius! No idea why I didn't think of that...