From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T02:46:58+09:00
Subject: Re: A better idiomatic way of doing this?!

On Monday, September 06, 2010 01:06:00 am Tim Romberg wrote:
> Rahul Kumar wrote:
> > Please look at the highline project. It will help you create menus, take
> > input, attach processing to menu items etc in a very clean and beautiful
> > way.
> > 
> > gem install highline
> > or check the rubyforge page highline.rubyforge.org
> 
> Thank you Rahul I heard about the highline project and have already
> installed it. The problem though is that this project is for a course
> and we have not had highline as a part of the course. In this case they
> would have to install highline aswell to be able to evaluate my
> assignment and I dont think they would approve.

Have you asked them? I'm currently taking a course on C and C++, and I am 
allowed to use libraries if I get approval for the specific library.

Frankly, there isn't a more idiomatically-Ruby way to do this than to find a 
gem which solves the same problem.