How can I get a single keyboard character from the terminal with Ruby without pressing enter? I tried Curses::getch, but that didn’t really work for me.
How can I get a single keyboard character from the terminal with Ruby without
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How can I get a single keyboard character from the terminal with Ruby without pressing enter? I tried Curses::getch, but that didn’t really work for me.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/2999
(Tested on my OS X system, may not be portable to all Ruby platforms). See http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz5.html for some additional suggestions, including for Windows.