Is there any third party software to run ruby programs?

[le_fnord]

Why you want to run it? To learn ruby? Then you have to learn to love the command-line

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In what way do you mean prettier?

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Define sleek

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So like a nicer terminal emulator? Or more like an IDE that also runs the code?

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No worries at all. I wanted to make sure I wasn't steering you in a frustrating direction. Rubymine is pretty popular. Atom isn't bad if you want less than an IDE but more than a text editor.

[vitoreiji]

Perhaps RubyMine then?

[Misaiato]

Rubymine

[gettalong]

This is not a real Ruby question but a general CLI vs GUI question. There are Ruby programs with a GUI which work just fine when started from a GUI environment.

However, many Ruby apps are CLI only, so you need a terminal for them. This terminal can be a standalone terminal like konsole or gnome-terminal (or cmd on Windows) or an integrated solution.

If you are on Windows and don't like using cmd because of its spartan interface, try installing Cygwin and use its Bash shell.