# From the ruby book install on win32

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503 "2007-06-22T11:12:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/1 "2007-06-22T11:12:17Z")

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Hi folks,

Though i’d give ruby a try 🙂

from the book you get when installing ruby 1.8.6 about the program Song.

this is the code i pasted into SciTE.

class Song  
def initialize(name, artist, duration)  
@name = name  
@artist = artist  
@duration = duration  
end  
end

this i saved as Song.rb  
In the output window i type ruby aSong.rb  
and get  
ruby aSong.rb

> ruby aSong.rb  
> ruby: No such file or directory – aSong.rb (LoadError)  
> Exit code: 1

and with parameters i get

> ruby aSong.rb(“me Myself and I”," we are sailing",180)  
> ruby: No such file or directory – aSong.rb(me Myself and I, we are  
> sailing,180) (LoadError)  
> Exit code: 1

I was expecting it to drop back to the prompt without giving an error.

anyone explain to me what i’m not doing right?

I’m playing at present and would like to go through a worked example  
tutorial of say a name address app where you…

1. You punch in the data and it spits out to screen.
2. Take that and get user input from screen and dump to screen.
3. Take user input and output to text file.
4. Take user input and allow data to be edited and then written to file

all this as a cmd line app (don’t want to get too greedy and bog myself  
down with gui stuff or web stuff yet! (not done any cgi or web dev at  
all)

Also note i understand OOp but in the past theory and practical work has  
left me with a big hole that i’ve not been able to cross.

anyhow wait for comments

dave.

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**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/2 "2007-06-22T13:06:12Z")

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On 6/22/07, Dave L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> this i saved as Song.rb  
> In the output window i type ruby aSong.rb  
> and get  
> ruby aSong.rb
> 
> > ruby aSong.rb  
> > ruby: No such file or directory – aSong.rb (LoadError)  
> > Exit code: 1

You saved the file as “Song.rb” and you’re trying to run a file named  
“aSong.rb”. Do you _seriously_ not understand what you’re doing wrong?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/3 "2007-06-23T06:38:05Z")

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Bugger!!!

talk about looking like a f00l 🙂

saved code below as Song.rb

class Song  
def initialize(name, artist, duration)  
@name = name  
@artist = artist  
@duration = duration  
end  
end

tried it with Song.rb and got this

```
 ruby Song.rb

 >ruby Song.rb
 >Exit code: 0

```

Which i would expect to be something that’s worked as expected.  
Now if i pass parameters to it as in

```
 ruby Song.rb("here","come frank",60)
 >ruby Song.rb("here","come frank",60)
 ruby: No such file or directory -- Song.rb(here,come frank,60) 

```

(LoadError)  
\>Exit code: 1

so i expect this is where the error is the parameters aren’t know to the  
program  
and i get the LoadError.

Lyle could you confirm this to me?

I’m trying to copy from the ruby book that comes with ruby 1.8.6 win32.

thanks for the well enlightened response. Wasn’t trying to be silly, but  
was a bit tried (in my defense) :).

dave.

Lyle J. wrote:

> On 6/22/07, Dave L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > this i saved as Song.rb  
> > In the output window i type ruby aSong.rb  
> > and get  
> > ruby aSong.rb
> > 
> > > ruby aSong.rb  
> > > ruby: No such file or directory – aSong.rb (LoadError)  
> > > Exit code: 1
> 
> You saved the file as “Song.rb” and you’re trying to run a file named  
> “aSong.rb”. Do you _seriously_ not understand what you’re doing wrong?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/4 "2007-06-23T16:45:08Z")

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On Jun 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Dave L. wrote:

> program  
> and i get the LoadError.

Right. When you say “the Ruby book that comes with Ruby 1.8.6 win32”,  
I’m going to assume you’re talking about “Programming Ruby” (a.k.a.  
the Pickaxe book).

Now that you’ve created the Song class, you want to test it by  
creating a new Song instance. To do that, add this line to the end of  
your program (Song.rb), after the class definition:

aSong = Song.new(“here”, “come frank”, 60)

In the Pickaxe book, there’s a similar example that uses the song  
“Bicyclops” by Bela Fleck. Now, the discussion in the Pickaxe book  
doesn’t make this point very clear, but for you to actually see any  
output from this program, you’re going to need to add at least one  
more line:

puts aSong.inspect

So the entire contents of the file Song.rb should now look something  
like this:

class Song  
def initialize(name, artist, duration)  
@name = name  
@artist = artist  
@duration = duration  
end  
end

aSong = Song.new(“here”, “come frank”, 60)  
puts aSong.inspect

Now if you run this at the command prompt by typing:

ruby Song.rb

You should see some output like this:

#\<Song:0x52c970 @duration=60, @name=“here”, @artist=“come frank”\>

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/5 "2007-06-23T17:14:11Z")

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On 6/23/07, Dave L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Bugger!!!
> 
> talk about looking like a f00l 🙂  
> Relax these things happen all the time, I remember debugging a file  
> three hours, getting completely crazy, doubting all save…  
> … that I was editing the file remotely and running the tests  
> locally…  
> Great feature of vim allowing to edit files remotely 😉

Cheers  
Robert  
P.S.  
One could of course also drink less, but is this a reasonable option ?  
R.

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**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-the-ruby-book-install-on-win32/107503/6 "2007-06-24T11:22:16Z")

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Lyle J. wrote:

> On Jun 22, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Dave L. wrote:
> 
> > program  
> > and i get the LoadError.
> 
> Right. When you say “the Ruby book that comes with Ruby 1.8.6 win32”,  
> I’m going to assume you’re talking about “Programming Ruby” (a.k.a.  
> the Pickaxe book).

You are correct. Also i know that this was the first edition so i  
thought maybe there was some differences between the version of ruby it  
was realsed for and this current release.

> Now that you’ve created the Song class, you want to test it by  
> creating a new Song instance. To do that, add this line to the end of  
> your program (Song.rb), after the class definition:
> 
> aSong = Song.new(“here”, “come frank”, 60)
> 
> In the Pickaxe book, there’s a similar example that uses the song  
> “Bicyclops” by Bela Fleck. Now, the discussion in the Pickaxe book  
> doesn’t make this point very clear, but for you to actually see any  
> output from this program, you’re going to need to add at least one  
> more line:
> 
> puts aSong.inspect

Never thought of this as a problem!  
as always it’s the simple things you over look that cause the problems.

> So the entire contents of the file Song.rb should now look something  
> like this:
> 
> class Song  
> def initialize(name, artist, duration)  
> @name = name  
> @artist = artist  
> @duration = duration  
> end  
> end
> 
> aSong = Song.new(“here”, “come frank”, 60)  
> puts aSong.inspect
> 
> Now if you run this at the command prompt by typing:
> 
> ruby Song.rb
> 
> You should see some output like this:
> 
> #\<Song:0x52c970 @duration=60, @name=“here”, @artist=“come frank”\>
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Lyle

visited the ruby online tutorial last night and found it great!!  
but i am wondering why when i tried doing something from either the  
pickaxe book or a online pdf the interactive shell wouldn’t allow me to  
do the same things!

one was to create a def (still i’ll check this out better another  
night).

thanks for the help so far and in the famous words of arnie I’ll be  
back!

dave.