From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-03-27T04:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: user input timeout.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Rico Knoop <jointgek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it didn't seem to work,
>> it just kept waiting for me to input something.
>> i even tried to run just that code.
>> its still blinking, waiting for input on the background.
>>
>> am i doing something wrong?
>
> It might depend on which operating system and/or Ruby version you are using.
> I tried the code underneath on Windows Vista, using the Ruby Windows versions,
> and Ruby. It works for me using Ruby 1.9 for Windows.
> But using Ruby 1.8.6  and using the JRuby 1.8 equivalent seemed to work,
> or rather not work, in the way you described in your latest post.

I tested my version in Ubuntu and it worked fine.

Jesus.