"Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs / gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:3a3d58af0610161113q65a88f11nf9515aacb1441fde / mail.gmail.com...
> You need to put the ..\ruby\bin directory that's in your Instant Rails
> directory tree on you system path.  Once you've done that it should
> work.
>
> Curt


Yes, I've done that Curt (other .rb files invoke fine)-- but the stack trace 
seems to indicate something in the rb files which is ruby-specific, because 
it crashes out still with the following stack trace (I think it is unable to 
open a window of a project I since deleted?):


C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project.rb:80:in
`attach
_editpane': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project.rb:
97:in `reopen_files'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project.rb:
95:in `reopen_files'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project.rb:
54:in `initialize'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project_man
ager.rb:82:in `open_project'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project_man
ager.rb:152:in `open_default_project'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/./plugins/rubyide_project/project_man
ager.rb:47:in `initialize'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/freebase/lib/freebase/databus.rb:612:
in `notify'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/freebase/lib/freebase/databus.rb:609:
in `notify'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/freebase/lib/freebase/databus.rb:385:
in `data='
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/freebase/lib/freebase/core.rb:66:in `
initialize'
        from
C:/InstantRails/ruby/freeride/freebase/lib/freebase/core.rb:35:in `
startup'
        from freeride.rb:77:in `startup'
        from freeride.rb:116