From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T15:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: doesnt work

nah it works fine.  Add another input statement in there to see. 
What's happening is the output gets displayed, and the window closes
as soon as the process ends.  It's just too fast for you to see.

Start->run "cmd", and then run your ruby script from in there.

Pat

On 5/7/06, Corey <0011@hush.com> wrote:
> Hello i just started learing ruby tonight but the first little code
> example from the book doesnt work. It creates a ruby file and when i
> click on the ruby file a cmd window opens up and shows me the first line
> "Say something, please: " so i write something there and press return
> and then the cmd window just shuts every time.
>
> print "Say something, please: "
> user_input = gets.chomp
> print "You said #{user_input} .\n"
> print "Backwards, it reads #{user_input.reverse} .\n"
> print "The message is #{user_input.length}  characters long.\n"
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