# Freeride on Windows XP - where does the output go?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-windows-xp-where-does-the-output-go/50267>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-windows-xp-where-does-the-output-go/50267 "2005-12-14T18:27:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![craig](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@craig](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craig)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-windows-xp-where-does-the-output-go/50267/1 "2005-12-14T18:27:55Z")

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I want to use Freeride on my Win XP box, Version 2002, sp 1, but the  
output DOS window just flashes open and closes before I can see the  
output. I’m using ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] and Freeride  
version 0.9.4.

I’ve searched around the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup and found someone  
with a similar problem, but he never got a way to make it work, that I  
could see. (Subject: Re: FreeRIDE: Where does the output go? posted 22  
Jul 2005)

I get this:

> ruby C:\ruby-proj\process.rb  
> exit

This is a simple script and I’d actually like to see the output  
captured in the console window I suppose, if I could answer the script  
when it wants some input.  
My Debug/Run preferences are set to save files before running and run  
in a terminal.

Anybody else with this? Any hints?

thanks,  
Craig

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**Author:** ![craig](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@craig](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craig)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-windows-xp-where-does-the-output-go/50267/2 "2005-12-14T18:49:04Z")

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You need to set a debugger option. the menu command “Edit \>\>  
Preferences” will bring up the preferences dialog. Then selecte  
“Debugger/Run” on the left and you should then see a checkbox on the  
right labeled: “Run process in terminal”. Check that checkbox and  
click Ok, and it should do what you want.

Curt