SciTE and 1.8.6

Ruby
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I installed Ruby 1.8.6 this morning. At first I
thought my programs would no longer run in Windows. I
now know that they will run from a command prompt but
not thought SciTE. Anyone else had problems with
SciTE V1.72 and Ruby 1.8.6?

Jeff

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On Aug 16, 1:07 pm, Jeffrey B. [email protected] wrote:

I installed Ruby 1.8.6 this morning. At first I
thought my programs would no longer run in Windows. I
now know that they will run from a command prompt but
not thought SciTE. Anyone else had problems with
SciTE V1.72 and Ruby 1.8.6?

Here are some things to check:

make sure the path to ruby.exe is in your path system environment

variable
C:>path
PATH=c:\ruby\ruby186\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

make sure .rb and .rbw are set in the pathext system environment

variable
C:>echo %pathext%
.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.RB;.RBW;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.tcl;.PSC1

make sure the rubyopt system environment variable is set.

C:>echo %rubyopt%
-rubygems

make sure the file associations are there.

C:>assoc .rb
.rb=rbFile

C:>ftype rbfile
rbfile=c:\ruby\ruby186\bin\ruby.exe “%0” %*

in Scite, open the ruby.properties file, and make sure the

command.go line looks like this:
command.go.*.rb=ruby $(FileNameExt)

if it’s a problem with a system environment variable, make sure you

set it in the gui, and not with the set command. Otherwise the
changes won’t persist.

Here’s some info on that: How To Manage Environment Variables in Windows XP - Microsoft Support