Terminal not executing Ruby files

Question

I\'m pretty much entirely new to programming, so bear with me. I am on a Macbook Pro running 10.6.6.

At the beginning of the \"Learn to Program\" tutorial are these dir

Answer 1

If you have named your file "Calc.rb" you'll need to run ruby Calc.rb (capital "C").

Also make sure that you're navigating the /Desktop directory — e.g. type

cd ~/Desktop
ruby Calc.rb

You can use ls to get a list of all the files in the current directory. You could use that to see if the file you're trying to execute actually exists.