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One liner in Ruby for displaying a prompt, getting input, and assigning to a variable?

Often I find myself doing the following:

print "Input text: "
input = gets.strip

Is there a graceful way to do this in one line? Something like:

puts "Input text: #{input = gets.strip}"

The problem with this is that it waits for the input before displaying the prompt. Any ideas?

Solution

  • Check out highline:

    require "highline/import"
input = ask "Input text: "