# Allow Users

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 9, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523 "2006-10-09T18:11:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/1 "2006-10-09T18:11:30Z")

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Ok so im new to ruby,

I Want to make it so the person using the application can type a word  
and it will turn backwords

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/2 "2006-10-09T18:16:03Z")

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Hi –

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Acoole C. wrote:

> Ok so im new to ruby,
> 
> I Want to make it so the person using the application can type a word  
> and it will turn backwords

ruby -e ‘puts gets.reverse’

David

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/3 "2006-10-09T18:18:04Z")

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On 09/10/06, Acoole C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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word = string.gets  
puts word.reverse

Farrel

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/4 "2006-10-09T18:28:58Z")

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Ok Well Can Someone please give me a FULL working script that works with  
FreeRIDE

ACOOLE

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/5 "2006-10-09T18:22:05Z")

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Hi –

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Farrel L. wrote:

> > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> word = string.gets

s/string.// 🙂

David

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/6 "2006-10-09T18:34:10Z")

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On 10/9/06, Acoole C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Ok Well Can Someone please give me a FULL working script that works with  
> FreeRIDE

He just gave you one. Well, nearly. What do you want, blood?

Martin

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/7 "2006-10-12T02:49:35Z")

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On 06-10-09, at 12:11, Acoole C. wrote:

> Ok so im new to ruby,
> 
> I Want to make it so the person using the application can type a word  
> and it will turn backwords

$stdin.gets.reverse

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**Author:** ![acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@acoole](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acoole)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/allow-users/71523/8 "2006-10-09T23:00:56Z")

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He probably didn’t realize that such a program would be so short. 🙂

Acoole just put Farrel’s lines of code into freeride it should work  
straight away.