From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-15T16:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: standard library documentation

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> An example of a puzzle I've run into many times before -
> 
> I'm wanting to use the readline module. I go to 
> http://www.gotapi.com/rubystdlib, and look it up, and get a page that 
> tells me essentially nothing that I can use. THIS is documentation? I 
> don't see the point.
> 
> I don't see where else to go to find out how to use this module. I seem 
> to be missing some essential resource.

First hit on google "ruby require readline" gives this code:

require "readline"
include Readline

while line = readline("Prompt> ", TRUE)
   print line, "\n"
end

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