From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-11-01T11:20:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking IO read


On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:30 PM, S. Robert James wrote:

> Not very attractive...
>
> Back to the original question: there is no simple way to read
> nonblocking, or see if any output is available ?!?!

in io/wait:

--- IO#ready?
     returns non-nil if input available without blocking, or nil.

also: ri IO.read_nonblock