From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T02:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp - works in irb, not in program

Peter Vanderhaden wrote:
> Douglas:
> I forgot to mention that the puts command outputs the prompt to the
> screen, but the program never pauses to give the user a chance to enter
> anything for an answer.

Are you by any chance running the script with any command line arguments?
That would cause Kernel#gets to read from disk instead of from stdin which 
might explain the behaviour you're experiencing.


HTH,
Sebastian
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