Hi everyone
I've just start to learn ruby. I'd like to use my emacs as my ruby editor.
I've download the el files that I think are necessary to run ruby mode on emacs
I've put the el files in /usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp
some of the files that I have are
inf-ruby.el
ruby-mode.el
rubydb3.el
ruby-electric.el
snippet.el
find-recursive.el and some others

here is my .emacs file that is related to ruby mode

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
(lambda()
(add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks
'(lambda()
(save-excursion
(untabify (point-min) (point-max))
(delete-trailing-whitespace)
)))
(set (make-local-variable 'indent-tabs-mode) 'nil)
(set (make-local-variable 'tab-width) 2)
(imenu-add-to-menubar "IMENU")
(require 'ruby-electric)
(ruby-electric-mode t)
))


(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.rb$" 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.rhtml$" 'utf-8)

(defun try-complete-abbrev (old)
(if (expand-abbrev) t nil))

(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list
'(try-complete-abbrev
try-complete-file-name
try-expand-dabbrev))

(require 'rails)
(require 'snippet)
(autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Major mode for editing ruby scripts." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq interpreter-mode-alist (append '(("ruby" . ruby-mode)) interpreter-mode-alist))

(require 'ruby-mode)
(autoload 'run-ruby "inf-ruby"
"Run an inferior Ruby process")
(autoload 'inf-ruby-keys "inf-ruby"
"Set local key defs for inf-ruby in ruby-mode")
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
(inf-ruby-keys)))
;; If you have Emacs 19.2x or older, use rubydb2x
(autoload 'rubydb "rubydb3x" "Ruby debugger" t)
;; uncomment the next line if you want syntax highlighting
;;(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

below is the code that I try to run in emacs buffer
print('Enter your name: ' )
name = gets()
puts( "Hello #{name}" )
Here's how I try to run it
esc -x compile, ruby input.rb
but when I type in the name and hit enter, emacs says no more errors yet
it seems that every time I try to user input and hit enter it says no more errors yet instead of taking the value entered.
Anybody has an idea why this is happening?

Thank you

I don't know a whole lot about Ruby, but the compile command is not really for meant for interactive commands.
Try and then the Ruby command that runs/loads a file (there might also be a binding for doing that, try C-h m in a Ruby buffer to get some more help) in the buffer that pops up.

PS: please use [code] tags.
M-x means esc-x in Emacs notation (On most systems alt-x also produces M-x) and C-x means ctrl-x for any character x.

Thanks , I will try that.