From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2011-03-17T07:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How to View Output - Stop App

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Rob Gu <flyingv786@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings, total noob question I'm sure. I'm trying to run a simple
> example in a console, but how do I tell it to stop so I can view the
> output?  In C# I think I could just return false or something, but what
> do you do in Ruby?
>
> puts "Hello, world. What is your name?"
> myname = gets()
> puts "Well, hello there " + myname + "."
> [so here it just closes out, but I want to see the greeting :( ]

I assume you mean that you double-click on the script's icon, a cmd
window appears, you type in your name, and then the cmd window
disappears. If so, just put 'gets' at the end of the script; that'll
make it wait until you press Enter to close it.