From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T20:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: very simple question

Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com> wrote:
> I just ran this (example from a book) --
> 
> print "Enter your name: "
> name = gets
> 
> And had exactly the same problem. However, running it outside of
> ArachnoRuby, simply as a Ruby file (I'm on WinXP), it runs fine. So, I
> have a problem with how my IDE is functioning - I'm new to that as
> well. I'll look at that...

This is probably an issue of buffered IO and / or changed outputs.  I'd try

$stdout.sync = true
$stdout.print "Enter your name: "
name = $stdin.gets

HTH

    robert