Yep, as the post title implies, I'm a newbie. Being a pragmatic newbie
I'd rather be learning to program, than searching for answers to
non-language acquisition questions/problems. I'm pretty sure the
following falls in that latter group, so if it's in a manual somewhere
please tell me so _politely_ and point me to _the_ manual. :-)
I'm starting to go through Dave Thomas' Programming Ruby/Picaxe (I'm on
pgs 25-26 2nd edition if you care) and I'm using TextMate/Terminal to
code and run modified versions of the book's examples. So I ran a
version of the following with a typographical error, which was apparent
with the Terminal feedback. So far, so good. I fixed the error and
tried to run it again. The problem is that now when I run it, all I
get in response is a new blank prompt. I've tried renaming the file,
the class, giving it a completely new set of variables in the array and
quiting/restarting the Terminal. If I type the _exact_ same thing into
irb I'm able to create a book and book2 instance and .inspect each of
them. But with the TextMate/Terminal combo = Nothing, nadda, zip!
HELP, PLEASE!
#filename bib.rb
class Book
def initialize(title, author, pages)
@title = title
@author = author
@pages = pages
end
end
book = Book.new("Ruby Tutorial", "Dave", 831)
book.inspect
#terminal results
computer: me$ ruby bib.rb
computer: me$