# File association problems? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 6, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-association-problems/116521 "2007-10-06T19:27:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dust)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-association-problems/116521/1 "2007-10-06T19:27:35Z")
The other day, ruby was working fine for me. Then i was messing around and when i went to open one of my saved programs with scite, i wondered what would happen if i made it _always preform this action_ so i did. then when i would try and run it in cmd… it would just open it as scite, and not a .rb program. So, then i went back to the file location and i tried opening with cmd instead of scite. After that, my computer says that my programs arn’t “valid win32 applications”. Some people thought it might have been file association, but I’m not sure, look at this … Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>assoc /? Displays or modifies file extension associations ASSOC [.ext[=[fileType]]] .ext Specifies the file extension to associate the file type with fileType Specifies the file type to associate with the file extension Type ASSOC without parameters to display the current file associations. If ASSOC is invoked with just a file extension, it displays the current file association for that file extension. Specify nothing for the file type and the command will delete the association for the file extension. C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>ftype /? Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations FTYPE [fileType[=[openCommandString]]] fileType Specifies the file type to examine or change openCommandString Specifies the open command to use when launching files of this type. Type FTYPE without parameters to display the current file types that have open command strings defined. FTYPE is invoked with just a file type, it displays the current open command string for that file type. Specify nothing for the open command string and the FTYPE command will delete the open command string for the file type. Within an open command string %0 or %1 are substituted with the file name being launched through the assocation. %\* gets all the parameters and %2 gets the 1st parameter, %3 the second, etc. %~n gets all the remaining parameters starting with the nth parameter, where n may be between 2 and 9, inclusive. For example: ``` ASSOC .pl=PerlScript FTYPE PerlScript=perl.exe %1 %* ``` would allow you to invoke a Perl script as follows: ``` script.pl 1 2 3 ``` If you want to eliminate the need to type the extensions, then do the following: ``` set PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% ``` and the script could be invoked as follows: ``` script 1 2 3 ``` C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>assoc .rb .rb=rbFile C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>ftype rbFile rbFile=“c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “%1” %\* C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>ftype rbFile=“C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “%1” %\* rbFile=“C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “%1” %\* C:\Documents and Settings\Schmode\>cd\ C:\>helloworld.rb Access is denied. C:\> Its strange, i have restarted my copm, re-installed ruby, and nothings working? thanks for any help, Erik ---
**Author:** ![dust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dust)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/file-association-problems/116521/2 "2007-10-07T08:14:55Z")
You need to remove that file association and re-implement the ruby interpretor with it. Windows XP instructions - Control panel \> appearance and themes \> folder options :: File types tab scroll to the RB extension delete all extensions except… it should be using Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.6 [i386-mswin32] g’luck!