I'm a newbie & am just learning to use Ruby. I've chosen ScITE as my
editor. So far so good, writing scripts then executing them inside
ScITE using 'F5'.
when I run this in ScITE
puts "Hello, world. What is your name?"
myname = gets()
puts "Well, hello there " + myname + "."
All that happens is the ruby.exe window pops up & sits there blank.
If I name the above script "banana1.rb", save it to C:\rubyprograms
& then run the program from the command prompt it runs fine.
eg:
c:\rubyprograms> ruby banana1.rb
Hello, world. What is your name?"
OneBanana
Well, hello there OneBanana
SciTE is a wonderful ide, unfortunately it does not take well to input
in its output panel. While the output panel can handle plenty of shell
commands, in general it was not implemented in SciTE to handle many
input situations, not just the ones that ruby presents.
After spending many cumulative hours searching for a fix or workaround
and being left without even a hint on how to make it work, I decided
to create my own workaround. What the below does is launches an xterm
for your input and output, but if ruby has an error, its sent to Scite
so you can use the line highlight feature.
In windows you'll have to find your own solution, but in linux you can
do the following:
1. First off we need to change the command that launches ruby. Using
the SciTe Menu
Options->Edit Properties->Open ruby.properties
