# Running ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [4 September 2007 20:21 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/running-ruby/40386 "2007-09-04T20:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Konrad\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Konrad\_Meyer](https://rubytalk.org/u/Konrad_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [4 September 2007 20:21 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/running-ruby/40386/1 "2007-09-04T20:21:59Z")
white background? > **ยทยทยท** > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: running ruby > Date: Tuesday 04 September 2007 > From: yahdoco \ > To: Konrad Meyer \ > > > > The screen is black and the words on it are white. I can't read the words > > > because the screen disappears too quickly. > > > How can I make the screen stay visible until I choose to click it off? > > > How can I change the screen so that the words are in black letters on a > > ------------------------------- > > > Go to the start menu \> Run, and type "cmd" (sans quotation marks). This > > should open a command prompt you can use to run it ("ruby hello.rb"). > > Hope it helps, > > ------------------------------- > I went to the Start Menu. I clicked on Run. A dialog box came up with > the word OPEN: > I entered hello.rb and the ruby program ran as before. > However. I still have the same problems: > The screen disappears quickly. > The letters are white on a black background. > I tried this method. I clicked on the My Computer Icon. > Next I clicked on the Control Panel Icon. Next I clicked on the > Display Icon. A dialog box with several options came up: > Background, Screensaver, Appearance, etc. > I clicked on Appearance. Many options came up. I changed the Active > Window option to get a black letter on a white background. However, > when I ran the ruby program, the results were the same as before. > Any other ideas?