From: RoRNoob <rornoob@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T14:30:09+09:00
Subject: Noob Questions [arrays]

Be warned - I'm new to Ruby and programming in general, so I'm sure
this will be a trivial question for most of you.

I'm currently working through the exercises in the book Learn to
Program by Chris Pine. At the end of each chapter Chris has a little
programming problem that the reader is asked to solve. I've been able
to follow along just fine up until tonight.

The problem in question is at the end of Chapter 8 (Arrays and
Iterators): I have to write a program that asks the user to type in as
many words as they want (one word per line, continuing until they just
press Enter on an empty line) and then repeat the words back to them
in alphabetical order.

The program lives in a .rb file and is executed and ran from the
terminal.

Here is my code:

alphalist = []
alphalist.each do |item|
  puts 'type words one at a time and I will alphabetize them for you.'
  alphalist.push gets.chomp
end
puts alphalist.sort

When I run the .rb file, nothing happens. Any help is appreciated!