From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T01:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: STDIN

On 4/23/08, Chinna Karuppan <chinnakaruppan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to use the STDIN.read in the IRB .This keep eating what
> ever I type .it never comes to the next line.I am not sure what is
> happening ...

the read method without any arguments will read until the end of file. For stdin
you can signal end-of-file by typing Ctrl-Z.

irb(main):002:0> s=STDIN.read
hello
world
^Z
=> "hello\nworld\n"