Help with a common problem

[Kevin]

I'm a very new programmer and was reffered to Ruby from a friend.
I followed this great tutorial http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=00
and got up to chapter 3. Something stoped working when trying to
"gets" and know i get the following error messege for everything.

ruby is not recgonized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

i got the same problem when trying to learn java.

 

[Michael W. Ryder]

I'm a very new programmer and was reffered to Ruby from a friend.
I followed this great tutorial http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=00
and got up to chapter 3. Something stoped working when trying to
"gets" and know i get the following error messege for everything.

ruby is not recgonized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

i got the same problem when trying to learn java.

Have you checked your path to be sure that ruby\bin is there?

 

[Robert Klemme]

I'm a very new programmer and was reffered to Ruby from a friend.
I followed this great tutorial http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=00
and got up to chapter 3. Something stoped working when trying to
"gets" and know i get the following error messege for everything.

ruby is not recgonized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

Did you actually install Ruby on that system...

i got the same problem when trying to learn java.

.... and set PATH properly?

Kind regards

robert