Delay with Ruby until keyprompt ?

[Dave_Connor]

I want to get into more interactive programming and want with before ruby to print out something I could set up a key prompt like enter or y or n before ruby prints something. How can this be done ?

[meanburrito920]

If you are looking for the program to simply wait for user input, use gets. otherwise, look into a multithreading implementation. do a google search for threads in ruby.

[loell]

it's rawline (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rawline/)

[loell]

found another snippet. ;)



#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

require "highline/system_extensions"
include HighLine::SystemExtensions

print "Enter one character: "
char = get_character
puts char.chr