9 Nov
2010
9 Nov
'10
8:01 p.m.
I'm a Ruby newbie. I'm using TexMate Version 1.5.9 (1510) on Mac OS X
Version 10.6.4. I'm trying to write a small Ruby snippet to get keyboard
input as follows:
puts "What is your name? "
name = gets.chomp
puts "Hello #{name}"
I get the following TextMate error:
*NoMethodError:* private method ‘chomp’ called for nil:NilClass
*at top
level*<txmt://open?line=2&url=file:///Users/marcc/Documents/marccTechnical/Ruby/myRubyPrograms/sayhello.rb>
in *sayhello.rb* at line 2
Program exited with code #1 after 0.02 seconds.
I've googled pretty much every piece of information on Ruby keyboard input,
changed that little snippet many times accordingly, but I could never get it
to work.
I realize that this question is not directly related to TextMate, but I'm
hoping somebody can help me.
Thanks in advance,
Marc
9 Nov
9 Nov
9 p.m.
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Marc Chanliau wrote:
I'm a Ruby newbie. I'm using TexMate Version 1.5.9 (1510) on Mac OS X Version
10.6.4. I'm trying to write a small Ruby snippet to get keyboard input as follows:
puts "What is your name? "
name = gets.chomp
puts "Hello #{name}"
I get the following TextMate error:
NoMethodError: private method ‘chomp’ called for nil:NilClass
I'm no Ruby expert myself, but the problem you're seeing is that "gets"
is nil, and therefore has no "chomp" to execute. "gets" is nil
because you have no interactive input. The sad news is thus:
http://blog.macromates.com/2009/interactive-input/
You might try using TextMate's UI library and get a string from the user, if
that's crucial to your snippet. A very simple example:
require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + '/lib/ui'
userInput = TextMate::UI.request_string()
puts userInput
9:15 p.m.
Thanks for the helpful answer. Unfortunately, I'm on Snow Leopard, so the
blog's workaround won't work for me. Adding the snippet you provided works,
but that makes the program break in a regular terminal window, of course.
For now, I'll run Ruby programs asking for user input directly from the
terminal, but that's not cool. Is there a chance to see this feature
supported again in a future TxMate update?
Thanks,
Marc
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Dru Kepple <dru(a)summitprojects.com> wrote:
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Marc Chanliau wrote:
I'm a Ruby newbie. I'm using TexMate Version 1.5.9 (1510) on Mac OS X
Version 10.6.4. I'm trying to write a small Ruby snippet to get keyboard
input as follows:
puts "What is your name? "
name = gets.chomp
puts "Hello #{name}"
I get the following TextMate error:
NoMethodError: private method ‘chomp’ called for nil:NilClass
I'm no Ruby expert myself, but the problem you're seeing is that "gets"
is
nil, and therefore has no "chomp" to execute. "gets" is nil because
you
have no interactive input. The sad news is thus:
http://blog.macromates.com/2009/interactive-input/
You might try using TextMate's UI library and get a string from the user,
if that's crucial to your snippet. A very simple example:
require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + '/lib/ui'
userInput = TextMate::UI.request_string()
puts userInput
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9:33 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Marc Chanliau <marc.chanliau(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Thanks for the helpful answer. Unfortunately, I'm
on Snow Leopard, so the
blog's workaround won't work for me. Adding the snippet you provided works,
but that makes the program break in a regular terminal window, of course.
For now, I'll run Ruby programs asking for user input directly from the
terminal, but that's not cool. Is there a chance to see this feature
supported again in a future TxMate update?
Thanks,
Marc
I'm also having this same problem, when it used to work just fine in the
same version of TextMate. The only thing I can think of that changed is that
I recently started using RVM to manage my rubies, but the ruby programs
still run fine from the terminal, as you said... So unfortunately I don't
know what the problem might be.
9:45 p.m.
Marc Chanliau wrote:
> Thanks for the helpful answer. Unfortunately,
I'm on Snow Leopard, so the
> blog's workaround won't work for me.
I'm pretty sure that the problem with interactive input in SL was
fixed some time back, at least in the "cutting edge" builds. Maybe try
updating (via Preferences => Software Update => (watch for => cutting
edge)). The cutting edge builds aren't all that cutting edge these
days in any case :-(
Cheers,
Paul
10 Nov
10 Nov
6:12 a.m.
Thanks, Paul. Indeed it works with "cutting edge" build 1589.
Thanks again.
Marc
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Paul McCann <pmccann(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Marc Chanliau wrote:
> Thanks for the helpful answer. Unfortunately,
I'm on Snow Leopard, so
the
> blog's workaround won't work for me.
I'm pretty sure that the problem with interactive input in SL was
fixed some time back, at least in the "cutting edge" builds. Maybe try
updating (via Preferences => Software Update => (watch for => cutting
edge)). The cutting edge builds aren't all that cutting edge these
days in any case :-(
Cheers,
Paul
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13 Nov
13 Nov
12:52 a.m.
Agghhh! I was just prompted to download the latest update (1616), which I
did, and sure enough, the keyboard input functionality is broken again. This
is really annoying!
Is there a way to get back to the earlier version (i.e., build 1589)?
Again, this is really annoying...
Marc
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Marc Chanliau <marc.chanliau(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Thanks, Paul. Indeed it works with "cutting
edge" build 1589.
Thanks again.
Marc
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Paul McCann <pmccann(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Marc Chanliau wrote:
> Thanks for the helpful answer. Unfortunately,
I'm on Snow Leopard, so
the
> blog's workaround won't work for me.
I'm pretty sure that the problem with interactive input in SL was
fixed some time back, at least in the "cutting edge" builds. Maybe try
updating (via Preferences => Software Update => (watch for => cutting
edge)). The cutting edge builds aren't all that cutting edge these
days in any case :-(
Cheers,
Paul
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