From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T02:03:34+09:00
Subject: Re: HighLine problems

On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:30 AM, jogloran wrote:

> I have a little application which uses the HighLine 1.2.0 gem: it's  
> worked
> perfectly under Windows and Linux. When invoked in Mac OS X,  
> however, I get:

HighLine is developed on OS X, so it *should* work OK there.  ;)

> /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.0/lib/highline.rb: 
> 576:in
> `get_line': The input stream is exhausted. (EOFError)
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.0/lib/ 
> highline.rb:596:in
> `get_response'
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.0/lib/ 
> highline.rb:177:in
> `ask'
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/highline-1.2.0/lib/ 
> highline.rb:272:in
> `choose'
>         from lib2.rb:90:in `ask_action'
>         from lib2.rb:22:in `initialize'
>         from lib2.rb:21:in `initialize'
>         from lib2.rb:303

This error was added recently as a "feature", to allow user code to  
detect the end of a stream.  (It was intended mainly for scripts  
reading from STDIN and wanting to notice a control-D/control-z  
keystroke.)

> when I try to read input.
>
> This is ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.5.2].
>
> I'd be happy to hear any ideas.

Can you show me a simple example of how you are feeding the script  
input when the error is triggered and the HighLine code involved?   
(You can email me privately, so we don't disturb the list with our  
bug hunt.)

James Edward Gray II