From: David Ishmael <dishmael@...>
Date: 2006-03-25T02:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Console IO

Perfect, thx!


-----Original Message-----
From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@grayproductions.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:53 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Console IO

On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Daniel Harple wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2006, at 6:31 PM, David Ishmael wrote:
>
>> Not to shanghai this convo (but its sort of on the same subject),  
>> is there a
>> way to prompt for a response in-line with your question rather  
>> than printing
>> the question and then having it go to the next line?
>
> Yes, either set $stdout.sync = true, or call $stdout.flush.

Neither seem to be required:

$ ruby -e 'print "Name?  "; gets; puts "Hello #$_"'
Name?  James
Hello James

Ruby is a pretty clever girl.  ;)

James Edward Gray II