> 
> Justin Collins wrote:
> > 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, 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.
> >>
> >
> > Where are you running the program from? Inside some IDE? From the
> > command line? In Windows?
> >
> > -Justin
> 
> Nevermind, I see you are running Scintilla and I don't know anything
> about that! :)
> 

Hi,

 I've never used Scintilla myself but I tried to run your program.

 It seems Scintilla has a small splitter on the right. If you drag it to the
left, this is the place where your program will write with puts... And it's
also there that you type your input (for gets). You have to ignore the
command prompt window that will start... (The splitter can also be at the
bottom depending on the options...)

 You won't see anything before you type if you leave your program that way.
This is because Ruby will wait for more text before printing it because it's
more efficient this way. So you can do this to force Ruby to write the text
before you wait for the user input:

puts 'Hello there, and what\'s your name?'
STDOUT.flush
name = gets
puts 'Your name is ' + name + '?  What a lovely name!'
puts 'Pleased to meet you, ' + name + '.  :)' 

 You normally don't need that outside Scintilla...

 Hope this helps. Good luck!

 Guillaume