RE: Fix for console mode Ruby

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:32:46 -0400

You know you might even be able to fix this by removing the ruby scripts if
you need to.  Jaws does not lock up I am betting they  used to have to
silent Jaws when you run ruby open book.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:24 AM
To: programmingblind
Subject: Fix for console mode Ruby

  Ruby for Windows
http://RubyInstaller.org

has a console and GUI mode version of the interpreter, ruby.exe and 
rubyw.exe, respectively.  Due to an apparent JAWS bug, the console 
version locks up when run with JAWS at a command prompt.  This does not 
happen with Window-Eyes or NVDA.

I found a work-around by running a batch file instead of the executable 
directly.  It is called rubyc.bat (a suffix of c as opposed to w).  The 
content is simply the following:

@echo off
ruby.exe %*


You can copy rubyc.bat to the same bin subdirectory where ruby.exe, 
rubyw.exe, irb.bat, and gem.bat reside.  I have now also included the 
file in the archive of the Ruby fruit basket program
http://EmpowermentZone.com/rb_fruit.zip

If anyone figures out a way to fix JAWS so this is not necessary, I am 
still interested in that, too.

Jamal

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