Highline ask method won't use same line

Question

Setup:

Bash
Ruby 1.9.2
highline (1.6.13)

Description:

I'm fairly used to highline with some other projects, but haven't used it in a few months. Now, on a fresh install on Ruby 1.9.2, it doesn't seem to allow prompts to be answered on the same line.

So previously I would see something like:

 require "highline/import"
 ask "What is your favorite color?"

And get:

 What is your favorite color? |

Now I see something like:

 What is your favorite color?
 |

Where the pipe (|) symbol is my terminal cursor.

Any ideas why this change has occurred?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '12 at 01:22

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Put a space at the end of the question string, eg

ask "What is your favorite color? "

answered Jun 20 '12 at 01:22

Tim Peters

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The simplicity of that is embarrassing, but I can't say it's obvious. Thanks! – wmarbut Jun 20 '12 at 01:32
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np - I agree it's not obvious, I had to read through the rdoc when I first used highline to find it. But I can't remember it behaving different :) – Tim Peters Jun 20 '12 at 01:58
it's likely that I was the one behaving differently... haha – wmarbut Jun 20 '12 at 02:12

Highline ask method won't use same line

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