One liner in Ruby for displaying a prompt, getting input, and assigning to a variable?

Often I find myself doing the following:

print "Input text: "
input = gets.strip

Is there a graceful way to do this in one line? Something like:

puts "Input text: #{input = gets.strip}"

The problem with this is that it waits for the input before displaying the prompt. Any ideas?

I found the [Inquirer][1] gem by chance and I really like it, I find it way more neat and easy to use than Highline, though it lacks of input validation by its own.
Your example can be written like this

require 'inquirer'
inputs = Ask.input 'Input text'


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I know this question is old, but I though I'd show what I use as my standard method for getting input.


require 'readline'

def input(prompt="", newline=false)
prompt += "\n" if newline
Readline.readline(prompt, true).squeeze(" ").strip
end

This is really nice because if the user adds weird spaces at the end or in the beginning, it'll remove those, and it keeps a history of what they entered in the past (Change the `true` to `false` to not have it do that.). And, if `ARGV` is not empty, then `gets` will try to read from a file in `ARGV`, instead of getting input. Plus, `Readline` is part of the Ruby standard library so you don't have to install any gems. Also, you can't move your cursor when using `gets`, but you can with `Readline`.

And, I know the method isn't one line, but it is when you call it

name = input "What is your name? "

One liner hack sure. Graceful...well not exactly.

input = [(print 'Name: '), gets.rstrip][1]

Following @Bryn's lead:

def prompt(default, *args)
print(*args)
result = gets.strip
return result.empty? ? default : result
end

Check out [highline][1]:

require "highline/import"
input = ask "Input text: "

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I think going with something like what Marc-Andre suggested is going to be the way to go, but why bring in a whole ton of code when you can just define a two line function at the top of whatever script you're going to use:

def prompt(*args)
print(*args)
gets
end

name = prompt "Input name: "

The problem with your proposed solution is that the string to be printed can't be built until the input is read, stripped, and assigned. You could separate each line with a semicolon:

$ ruby -e 'print "Input text: "; input=gets.strip; puts input'
Input text: foo
foo