Re: Fix for console mode Ruby

Thanks. That sounds like the legacy 1.8.6 version for Windows. I previously used that (e.g., for TextPal), but am trying to use newer versions of the interpreter now -- at least 1.8.7. I appreciate the other tips. JRuby.exe does not have the same lockup problem, but the startup time for the JVM can be slow when running a script, and JRuby does not work with Ruby gems that use Windows DLLs, understandably. 

Jamal


On 9/30/2010 8:55 AM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 wrote:

I use http://www.ruby-lang.org's rubyinstaller.exe package and found
running start command with ruby first, then typing ruby filename.rb
didn't run me into any lock ups with jaws 10.x.  We're supposed to be
able to run irb "filename.rb" and be able to have irb execute script
files for us too.  It's recommended to set RUBYOPTS="-w" so as to get
any warnings the ruby interpreter may have as well.

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:24
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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