Get input in Rake Tasks

This won’t work:

cvs_username = gets

to get it working you have to ask input from STDIN:

cvs_username = STDIN.gets

And this is a helper method:

def ask message
print message
STDIN.gets.chomp
end
# ...
cvs_username = ask('Please insert your CVS username')

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  1. On July 15, 2009 at 5:01 pm David Said:

    works like a charm.

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  2. On December 1, 2009 at 4:55 pm ebuychance Said:

    nice helper..

    My ‘fork’ lol:

    def ask message, default_response=”
    print “#{message} ”
    response = STDIN.gets.chomp
    response.blank? ? default_response : response
    end

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