From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-02-13T23:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Novice Question: Getting "bad file descriptor error" when trying to use gets in ruby 1.8.1 for windows


"Revision17" <revision17@phreaker.net> wrote in message
> That I found on a tutorial website.  Ruby gives me this error when I try
to run it:
> >ruby guessnumber.rb
> higuessnumber.rb:4:in `gets': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
> from guessnumber.rb:4
> >Exit code: 1
>
> Why is this happening?

Are you running this through an Editor (may be SciTE or TextPad?)
IF that is the case then try it from the command prompt.

-- shanko