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kadecarlson
kadecarlson

Reputation: 11

Why isn't the gets keyword in ruby working in sublime text 3? What do I need to fix?

I'm new to coding and have been learning ruby and javascript recently and whenever I'm practicing ruby and use the gets keyword in sublime text 3 nothing works. I can type stuff in the console but the rest of the program won't run

Upvotes: 0

Views: 307

Answers (1)

max pleaner
max pleaner

Reputation: 26778

gets won't work if you're running the script via the Sublime 'build' command. The reason is that Sublime runs your code in a non-interactive shell.

You will have to run the file with a terminal, like ruby <my_file.rb>

You can see the same result with the following (the gets won't work in either):

# in ruby, gets won't work in a background thread
Thread.new { gets.chomp }

# in bash, gets won't work in a backgrounded process
$ ruby -e "gets.chomp" &

Upvotes: 2

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