I'm new to ruby and programming (although I did dabble in BASIC with my Commodore 64 back in the 80's) I'm running Ruby with Windows XP. I'm having a problem when I run this simple program: puts 'Hello, world!' puts ' ' puts 'Good-bye' When I run the program, a window appears that says "Hello, world! Good-Buy" and then the window immediately disappears. How do I get that window to stay open after it has run the program? Thanks for your help, Steve