# Freeride on winxp doesn't capture output

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 23, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694 "2006-03-23T01:43:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tydr_Schnubbis)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694/1 "2006-03-23T01:43:59Z")

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I have Freeride 0.9.5. I if have a script like ‘puts “hello”’, save it,  
and then press F5, this is what the output window displays:

> ruby C:/prog/ruby/test.rb  
> exit

It doesn’t show the output of my program, and there’s no error message  
in the FreeRIDE seperate console window either.

Think I had this problem with FreeRide 0.9.4 too, that’s probably why I  
upgraded. I know that ruby is unix-centric, and that you’re suppposed  
the use emacs and all that, but I’m spoilt by Python’s wonderful IDLE  
interactive IDE. I just want it to work, so I can start checking out  
Ruby.

I tried the Scite version that comes with ruby too, but that seems to  
have it’s own set of problems…

So I’m resorting to using a generic editor, the command line, and irb  
for now.

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**Author:** ![Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tydr_Schnubbis)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694/2 "2006-03-23T05:14:12Z")

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Set the FreeRIDE preference to run Ruby programs in terminal window:

Edit\>\>Preferences\>\>Debugger/Run\>\>Run process in terminal

Curt

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**Author:** ![Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tydr_Schnubbis)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694/3 "2006-03-23T13:34:33Z")

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Curt H. wrote:

> Set the FreeRIDE preference to run Ruby programs in terminal window:
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> Edit\>\>Preferences\>\>Debugger/Run\>\>Run process in terminal
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> Curt

I tried, but it didn’t make any difference. Nothing new happened. Not  
sure if I tried restarting FreeRide, but I can try again later.

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**Author:** ![Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tydr\_Schnubbis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tydr_Schnubbis)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/freeride-on-winxp-doesnt-capture-output/55694/4 "2006-03-24T04:09:02Z")

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I am basically having the same problem. With the standalone version I  
get this behavior when I do a run. If I run in debug mode it works and  
the output goes to the command window. If I run the One-Click Install  
version the debugger does not work but the program runs correctly with  
the Run mode. I a trying a reinstall of everything to see if has any  
impact.