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Re: Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby

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Actually, I just got it to work and successfully completed Exercise 0. My issue now is with the next one, Exercise 1 --- this time, I got stuck when I tried to run my file in the Terminal. I have attached my input and error messages here , any help appreciated ... thanks alot 


Hello,

So I am going through Michael Hartl's "Learn Ruby The Hard Way", managed to complete exercise 0 successfully , learned how to install a text editor , run the text editor and run the Terminal.

Currently, I am stuck on Exercise 1 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I typed the following text into a single TextWrangler file named ex1.rb (created a folder in my home directory called ex1.rb and saved it) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

puts "Hello World!"puts "Hello Again"puts "I like typing this."puts "This is fun."puts "Yay! Printing."puts "I'd much rather you 'not'."puts 'I "said" do not touch this.'

When I tried to run the file in my Terminal, I got error messages though -----------------------------------

CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: No such file or directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: No such file or directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: No such file or directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: No such file or directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: No such file or directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: Is a directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: Is a directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ex1.rb-bash: ex1.rb: command not foundCaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ ruby ex1.rbruby: Is a directory -- ex1.rb (LoadError)CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ 

Doesn't seem to work whatever I do ... Any help appreciated , thanks alot.

Gengyang
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On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 8:47:36 PM UTC+8, Sebastian Christ wrote:
> On 2016-04-04 3:59, Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 
>  > Hello,
>  > So I am a newbie programmer just starting to learn Ruby and am
>  > reading Michael Hartl's book "Learn Ruby The Hard Way".
>  > 
>  > In exercise 0 (http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ex0.html) , he
>  > describes the steps a person must take to get his computer to run
>  > Ruby, which includes learning how to make a directory in the Terminal,
>  > change into a directory in the Terminal and use the editor to create a
>  > file in the directory.
>  > 
>  > I could complete all the steps successfully except step 11 --- (Use
>  > your editor to create a file in this directory. You will make the
>  > file, "Save" or "Save As...," and pick this directory). --- no idea
>  > how to do this.
>  > 
>  > Any help appreciated ...
>  > 
>  > Gengyang
>  >
> 
> I assume you're using OSX, because "Use your editor to create a file in
> this directory. You will make the file, "Save" or "Save As...," and pick
> this directory." is step 11 of the OSX instructions. Scream if I'm
> mistaken.
> 
> If you say that you have successfully completed all the steps, I think
> you meant that you completed all previous steps. Step 13 depends on the
> successful outcome of step 11. So, please do repeat all steps again,
> especially step 1 and step 2 and then I give you another task:
> 
>   Task 11a: Find out what "Your editor" means.
> 
> Then proceed with Task 11 and the rest. 
> 
> Regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> -- 
> Sebastian (Rudolfo) Christ
> http://rudolfochrist.github.io
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Learn Ruby The Hard Way --- Problems with completing the exercise to get my computer to run Ruby Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 03:59 -0700
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