From: caof2005 <caof2005@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T18:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbe - strange behavior of print

On Apr 11, 2:24 am, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> caof2005 wrote:
> > Hello folks,  this is the scenario:
> > I tried to run the following code in EasyEclipse for Ruby IDE and
> > SciTE on WinXP
> > Both has the same behavior.
>
> > def main
> >    print "Enter the number of employees: "
> >    numEmp = gets
> >    puts "The number of employees is:= " + numEmp.to_s
> > end
>
> > main
>
> > ====================
>
> > The output is nothing ( it appears that the program hangs-on for a
> > while ), then if go to the console and I push the ENTER key it appears
> > the "Enter the number of employees: " and suddenly the program
> > terminates.
>
> > What I'm doing wrong?, I tried to follow the instructions from several
> > books ( David Black's "Ruby for Rails" and Dave Thomas "Programming
> > Ruby" ) and both indicates that the kind of code that I wrote should
> > work.
>
> Have you, per chance, tried to invoke your script from the command line?
> I know that SciTE needs to be patched in one way or another to allow for
> input. I can't judge Eclipse in that regard, as I don't use it.
>
> --
> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowskihttp://cynicalryan.110mb.com/
>
> Rule of Open-Source Programming #9:
>
> Give me refactoring or give me death!

Phillip:

Yes I tried from within irb... and it works perfectly, however when I
use either SciTE or EasyEclipse the behavior is awkward.

Regards
Carlos