paul.denlinger / gmail.com wrote:
> I'm working through the "Gets and chomp method" section of Learn to
> Program on http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=04
>
> I have a problem. I have entered the strings:
> puts 'Hello there, and what\'s your name?'
> name = gets
> puts 'Your name is ' + name + '?  What a lovely name!'
> puts 'Pleased to meet you, ' + name + '.  :)'
> into the text editor, and when I run it, it of course runs up to the
> second line. At this stage, I'm supposed to get a question, "What's
> your name?" and respond by typing in my name.
>
> When I run it, the command box opens,

You ought to be running it from the command-line interpreter.
The IDE is not part of Ruby.

> and just stays there. I have
> tried typing my name in there, but nothing happens, and I cannot get
> the code to continue running.
>
> Where am I supposed to type in my name, and what am I supposed to type
> to get the code running through the remaining lines of code?
>
> Thank you.

Above the code that you typed, this appears:

What actually happens is that gets just sits there,
reading what you type until you press Enter.