Question

I’m a newbie at ruby.
While I am using irb, something happens.(Nothings are printed)
Does anyone have any advise about this?
I cannot know even what search keyword would be OK for this situation.
(maybe an environment-specific problem? How do you think?)

irb(main):010:0> a = [3,2,1]
=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):011:0> a.each
=> #<Enumerable::Enumerator:0x7f413a20d668>
irb(main):012:0> a.each{|x| print x}
321=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):013:0> a.each do |x| print x end
321=> [3, 2, 1]
irb(main):014:0> 1.to 9
NoMethodError: undefined method `to' for 1:Fixnum
    from (irb):14
    from :0
irb(main):015:0> 1.to(9) do |x| print x done
irb(main):016:1> 1.to(9) { |x| print x }
irb(main):017:1> 1.to(9)
irb(main):018:1> 1.upto(9)
irb(main):019:1> 1.upto(9) do |x| print x done
irb(main):020:2> 1.upto(9) { |x| print x }
irb(main):021:2> print "x"
irb(main):022:2> abc
irb(main):023:2> a
irb(main):024:2> b

Answer 1

What happened is that after the error, you typed done instead of end.

Nothing was executed until the block was parsed, but the end never came, so irb just kept reading stuff…

In the future just type ^C or ^D until you get back to the top level or the shell, and then start over.