How do I use "gets" on a rake task?
I get an error whenever I try to use the function gets within a rake task. Is there a way to make it work?
The error says, "no such file or directory - (rake task name)"
The problem is that Kernel#gets
(which is what you're calling if you just use gets
by itself) assumes you're pulling from a file named by the arguments passed to Rake. That means gets
tries to return the content of a file called [rake-task-here], which almost certainly doesn't exist.
Try STDIN.gets
.