From: Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>
Date: 2009-09-23T11:13:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to detect what is running Ruby program?

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You wrote, "...which doesn't bundle SciTE, and instead has you work from the
command line as God intended."

Now I know why I'm an atheist!  It's that damn command line thingee!

So are people, who like to work from the authoritarian command line,
programming fundamentalists?

I like SciTE, it's a free IDE, even if it is of a different race.  Why can't
we all just get a lawn?

No Sam
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Paul Smith <paul@pollyandpaul.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Jonathan Castello <solugon@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps try passing a command-line argument if you're running from SciTE,
> which your program can detect and act accordingly? Assuming there's no
> simpler way, that is.
> >
> > ~Jonathan
> >
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:33:23 +0900
> >> From: masonkelsey@gmail.com
> >> Subject: How to detect what is running Ruby program?
> >> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >>
> >> I work on a Windows platform and have two utiltities that I can execute
> a
> >> Ruby program from.  The IDE SciTE and the fxri- Instant Ruby
> Enlightenment,
> >> or so it says.  The input commands such as "gets" do not work in the
> SciTE
> >> utility but do in the fxri utility.  If I use a gets command in a
> program
> >> while running on SciTE the system seems to freeze and nothing appears to
> be
> >> happening.
>
> IIRC there's a difference between Kernel#gets and STDIN#gets, one of
> which works from under SciTE and the other doesn't.  Try changing your
> gets call to STDIN.gets.
>
> Although personally, if you're using SciTE that probably means you're
> using the Ruby 1.8.6 one-click installer - which I would uninstall and
> move to the technology preview of Ruby 1.9, which doesn't bundle
> SciTE, and instead has you work from the command line as God intended.
>
> --
> Paul Smith
> http://www.nomadicfun.co.uk
>
> paul@pollyandpaul.co.uk
>
>

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