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Ruby Ruby Basics Ruby Syntax Method Return Values

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Git Bash waits for user input before running the program

I'm using Git Bash on Windows rather than Workspaces to follow along. Here's the code I'm testing.

def ask(question)
    print question

    # get input from user
    gets    
end


puts "Welcome to the Widget Store!"

answer = ask("How many widgets are you ordering?")
puts answer

What I'm expecting is that I should see the welcome message and then be presented with the question.

But I have to type in the answer before I receive any output from the console at all.

e.g. 

$ ruby widgets.rb
5
Welcome to the Widget Store!
How many widgets are you ordering?5

Any idea how I might fix this in my console? Thanks :)

1 Answer

Manish Giri
Manish Giri
16,266 Points
Manish Giri
Manish Giri
16,266 Points

It's working fine on my end (Linux terminal) - 

 % ruby test.rb
Welcome to the Widget Store!
How many widgets are you ordering?5   
5
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It's just occurred to me I need to use my Ruby command line interpreter, which works as expected, to run ruby programs. Thanks for the inspiration :)