# Fwd: Re: running ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 4, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-re-running-ruby/113782 "2007-09-04T22:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![konrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@konrad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/konrad)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-re-running-ruby/113782/1 "2007-09-04T22:22:28Z")
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: running ruby Date: Tuesday 04 September 2007 From: yahdoco [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: Konrad M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > > The screen is black and the words on it are white. I can’t read the words > > because the screen disappears too quickly. > > How can I make the screen stay visible until I choose to click it off? > > How can I change the screen so that the words are in black letters on a > > white background? * * * > Go to the start menu \> Run, and type “cmd” (sans quotation marks). This > should open a command prompt you can use to run it (“ruby hello.rb”). > Hope it helps, * * * I went to the Start Menu. I clicked on Run. A dialog box came up with the word OPEN: I entered hello.rb and the ruby program ran as before. However. I still have the same problems: The screen disappears quickly. The letters are white on a black background. I tried this method. I clicked on the My Computer Icon. Next I clicked on the Control Panel Icon. Next I clicked on the Display Icon. A dialog box with several options came up: Background, Screensaver, Appearance, etc. I clicked on Appearance. Many options came up. I changed the Active Window option to get a black letter on a white background. However, when I ran the ruby program, the results were the same as before. Any other ideas?