From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T11:02:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Sleep

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Adam Steinfurth <steinfal@gmail.com> wrote:
> This program is very simple.  It is suppose to load in the text file, load
> each character into an array, then print out the array one letter at a
> time.  It is supposed to wait 1 second each time it prints.  This freezes
> every time I run it.  Any ideas?
>
> Adam
>
>
> class Slow_Array
>
>    def array_split
>        @f = File.open('Text_for_TextReader.txt','r') do |f|
>            f.gets.scan(/\w/)
>        end
>    end
>
>    def print_and_wait
>        @f.each {
>            |i|
>            print i
>            sleep 1
>        }
>    end
>
> end
>
> #-------------------------------------------------
> # Main logic
> TextReader = Slow_Array.new
>
> # Bring file into program
> TextReader.array_split
>
> # Print each character, waiting one second in between each printing
> TextReader.print_and_wait

You can either:

$stdout.sync = true

or:

class SlowArray
  def slow_each
    File.open('Text_for_TextReader.txt') do |file|
      while line = file.gets
        puts line
        sleep 1
      end
  end
end

SlowArray.new.slow_each

^ manveru