Installed RubyScript on my Windows XP Pro machine to try it out. After that,
trying to run .rb files from the command line causes the error “x.rb is not
a valid win32 image,” or some crap like that.
Tried all kinds of variations of assoc and ftype, but couldn’t get it to go
away.
Finally just reinstalled the Pragmatic distribution. Command line works fine
now.
That whole thing pretty much sucked, and ate a good chunk of my afternoon. I
guess if I want to script Ruby on web pages I’ll just have to stick to my
Linux servers.
Oh, yeah… after a reboot, .rb files started running from the command line,
but they couldn’t find any included libraries like ‘odbc’. That’s when I put
Pragmatic back on.
“Philo Del Middleston” please_spam_me@37500hits4u.com wrote in message
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Installed RubyScript on my Windows XP Pro machine to try it out. After
that,
trying to run .rb files from the command line causes the error “x.rb is
not
a valid win32 image,” or some crap like that.
Tried all kinds of variations of assoc and ftype, but couldn’t get it to
go
away.
Finally just reinstalled the Pragmatic distribution. Command line works
fine
now.
That whole thing pretty much sucked, and ate a good chunk of my afternoon.
I
···
guess if I want to script Ruby on web pages I’ll just have to stick to my
Linux servers.
“Philo Del Middleston” please_spam_me@37500hits4u.com
wrote in message
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Installed RubyScript on my Windows XP Pro machine to try it
out. After that,
trying to run .rb files from the command line causes the
error “x.rb is not
a valid win32 image,” or some crap like that.
Tried all kinds of variations of assoc and ftype, but
couldn’t get it to go
away.
Finally just reinstalled the Pragmatic distribution. Command
line works fine
now.
That whole thing pretty much sucked, and ate a good chunk of
my afternoon. I
guess if I want to script Ruby on web pages I’ll just have
to stick to my
Linux servers.
If you look at the messages in this group, and any other
group for that matter, probably the number one issue is
trying to get something to run on a version of Windows. It
is impossible to fix something where the code is secret.
For myself, if I can’t do it simply and easily, I have
learned to give up fast. 99.9% of my computer problems are
from Windows. FreeBSD gives me the rest, and they are all
fixable… You are not alone.
Joe Gwozdecki
Houston, Texas
If you look at the messages in this group, and any other
group for that matter, probably the number one issue is
trying to get something to run on a version of Windows.
Well, there may be more concerning various flavors of Mac OS.
But either way, it’s not a good indidcator of how many pople are having
problems with an OS.
It
is impossible to fix something where the code is secret.
Maybe, though I doubt this is a Windows source code issue. I think the
trouble is the RubyScript installation package munging up file
associations. I imagine this can be repaired by poking about in the
registry.
The better solution might be for the installation process to prompt the
user for any registry changes. I think it should be possible to have
IIS or WSH know about RubyScript without farking the behavior of other
ruby files. Maybe it’s a simple as using a different file extension,
such as rbs or rbys or whatever.
I’ve been working on some IE context menu extensions, and looked into
using RubyScript, but I’ve run into the same multple-Ruby conflicts on
other machines and decided to pass. (Though I have to say, I hadn’t
done any JavaScript coding in a while and it’s fun. It, like, Ruby, has
some nice dynamic features. But I was hoping to use my browser tools as
a way to introduce more peope to Ruby. Oh well.)
For myself, if I can’t do it simply and easily, I have
learned to give up fast. 99.9% of my computer problems are
from Windows. FreeBSD gives me the rest, and they are all
fixable… You are not alone.
I tried installing and configuring FreeBSD, but I couldn’t do it simply
and easily, so I gave up and stayed with Redhat Linux 
James