# How to setup Emacs with inferior ruby-interpreter? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 24, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-setup-emacs-with-inferior-ruby-interpreter/146740 "2008-08-24T22:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ssecorp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@ssecorp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssecorp)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-setup-emacs-with-inferior-ruby-interpreter/146740/1 "2008-08-24T22:21:40Z")
I have tried to get Emacs to run an inferior ruby process. I can run the interpreter with comint-run irb.bat but then I can’t load a program into the interpreter. I already have ruby-mode for emacs so I got syntax hightlighting and all that stuff, just want to be able to run an integrated interpreter. also, is there a compiler for ruby? ---
**Author:** ![ssecorp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@ssecorp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssecorp)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-setup-emacs-with-inferior-ruby-interpreter/146740/2 "2008-08-24T22:46:16Z")
ssecorp [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > I have tried to get Emacs to run an inferior ruby process. > > I can run the interpreter with comint-run irb.bat but then I can’t > load a program into the interpreter. > > I already have ruby-mode for emacs so I got syntax hightlighting and > all that stuff, just want to be able to run an integrated interpreter. ruby-mode has built in support for inferior-ruby. From any buffer that is in ruby-mode, you can type M-x run-ruby to start inferior ruby. The run-ruby function is in inf-ruby.el See [EmacsWiki: Ruby Mode](http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RubyMode)