From: Wurzel Cidermaker <wurzelcidermaker@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T01:38:21+09:00
Subject: Re: loop until a key (i.e. enter or ESC) is pressed

ara.t.howard wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Wurzel Cidermaker wrote:
> 
>> then stops and I presume is waiting for the "gets"
>>
>> To put this into some context;
>>
>> I have a socket client program that continously reads data from a
>> server, the only way I have currently to stop it is to do a CTRL-C, I
>> want/would expect a more elegant way of performing an exit on a loop.
> 
> start this before you fire up your socket stuff
> 
> reaper =
> Thread.new do
>    loop do
>      Kernel.exit if gets == 'exit'
>    end
> end
> 
> if you type exit, your program will exit.  check out highline or
> search the archives if you want something more elegant - exiting a
> loop and accepting cross platform user input is a real can of worms
> made complex by the lack of getch() on *nix platforms, the
> idiosyncracies of termninal attributes, and buffering issues with pty
> vs not.
> 
> regards
> 
> a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

thanks for your response but I struggling to implement it.

can you please fix what I have below?

# example

def loopy

  loop do

   puts Time.now
   sleep 1

  end

end

reaper =
Thread.new do
   loop do
     Kernel.exit if gets == 'exit'
   end
end

loopy
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