# Why Ruby stops working under cygwin **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 21, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147 "2008-12-21T17:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147/1 "2008-12-21T17:56:06Z")
Hi all, I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I wonder how to fix it. Thanks, Li $ irb irb(main):001:0\> require ‘win32ole’ =\> true irb(main):002:0\> irb(main):003:0\* v=WIN32OLE.new(‘SAPI.SpVoice’) =\> #WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c irb(main):004:0\> v.speak(‘hello’) Error message in the pop windows: Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working. ---
**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147/2 "2008-12-22T18:45:36Z")
On Dec 21, 2:47 pm, Li Chen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > $ irb > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > From my experience Cygwin doens’t play nice with Windows Native API. > For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby > Installer instead. [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller) ---
**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147/3 "2008-12-23T02:03:50Z")
Luis L. wrote: > On Dec 21, 2:47�pm, Li Chen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > $ irb > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > From my experience Cygwin doens’t play nice with Windows Native API. > > For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby > > Installer instead. > > [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller) Hi Luis, I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that timeout doesn’t work under PC. So I try Cygwin and I find it works fine. Li ---
**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147/4 "2008-12-23T18:21:01Z")
Luis L. wrote: > But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always > a catch. Here is my solution: When I use timeout library I use Ruby under cygwin. When I use win32ole I use Ruby under vista. It is kind of weird but this is how I let the work done. Li ---
**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-ruby-stops-working-under-cygwin/156147/5 "2008-12-23T05:10:39Z")
On Dec 22, 10:55 pm, Li Chen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Luis, > > I also have One-Click Ruby Installer on my PC. The problem is that > timeout doesn’t work under PC. So I try Cygwin and I find it works > fine. But then Win32OLE will not work properly under Cygwin. There is always a catch.