Kernel#gets attempts to read file instead of standard input

Question

I\'m rather new to Ruby, and today I wrote an application which you can pass arguments to via ARGV. But inside my application, I want to be able to use \"gets\". Problem is,

Answer 1

You should be using STDIN.gets not Kernel#gets.

Some reference.

Answer 2

If there are arguments, the default gets method tries to treat the first one as a file and read from that. To read from $stdin in such a situation, you have to use it explicitly:

print "Say something! "
input = $stdin.gets