Why isn't 'gets' working in my Ruby script when I run from TextMate?

Question

When running the following ruby script:

puts gets.inspect

On the terminal I am prompted for input and then the inspect output is sh

Answer 1

See this blog entry; presumably you're on Snow Leopard?

From the comments, some users say that this file has worked for them on Snow Leopard. Per @dmarkow's answer, copy this file to:
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/
You may want to keep a copy of the file around as updates to TextMate may replace it.