On May 19, 5:39 ¨Âí¬ Ãáìöéî ¼ãóôåðèå®®®Àçíáéì®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº > On May 18, 11:15 ¨Âí¬ Òïâåòô Ëìåííå ¼óèïòôãõô®®®Àçïïçìåíáéì®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº > > > > > > > On 19.05.2009 05:33, Calvin wrote: > > > > When I type this into the terminal it works... but I am wondering if I > > > am going about things the right way: > > > > $ /opt/local/bin/ruby1.9 -v > > > > $ cd > > > > $ cd Desktop > > > > $ cd programs > > > > $ ruby1.9 calc.rb > > > > then the math equation answer from calc.rb shows up in the terminal. > > > Am I correct in thinking that ruby 1.9.1 is the ruby that is working > > > and not ruby 1.8.6? > > > It's likely but program names can be changed arbitrarily. ¨Âùï÷áîô > > to be sure you can easily find out by entering > > > ruby1.9 -v > > > Kind regards > > > robert > > > -- > > remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without endhttp://blog.rubybestpractices.com/-Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Thanks Robert! > > When I type in Ruby1.9 -v i get: ruby 1.9.1p129 with some other text.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I am also wondering if I could just type this into my terminal to get ruby1.9 to run a ruby file: $ cd $ cd Desktop $ cd programs $ ruby1.9 calc.rb Is this correct or incorrect? Thanks for your time, Calvin