[TxMt] Input from gets in Ruby

[Kumar McMillan]

oh, hehe, it is just the Run Ruby command.  Sorry, I thought you meant
this was built into TextMate!

On 9/29/05, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > stdout window.  However, I can't figure out how to get input from
> > > the gets method.  Is there any way to read from stdin when running
> > > a Ruby script from the Run Command>Ruby>Run Ruby menu?
> >
> > Yes, this happens automatically, but stdin is redirected to read
> > input from a dialog which should pop up whenever your script does a
> > gets or similar.
>
> Interesting.  I didn't know about this feature.  But I just tried it
> and stdin was sent as en empty string; there was no dialog.  How do
> you have to set the command up?  My test was like this:
>
> Save=Nothing
> Command=
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
>     print line
> print "done"
>
> Input=None
> Output=Show in separate window
>
> obviously this same script run in the shell will wait for input and
> will finish when you send it ^D (end of file).  I tried it with
> readline too, but the same thing: no dialog and just an empty string.
> Like :
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
> print sys.stdin.readline().strip()
> print "done"
>