Question about IO.popen

Question

How to write and read from process with Ruby? I wrote this, but it didn`t work...

output = IO.popen("irb", "r+") do |pipe|
  pipe.gets
  pipe.puts "10**6"
  pipe.gets
  pipe.puts "quit"
end

I rewrite so

IO.popen("irb", "w+") do |pipe|
  3.times {puts pipe.gets} # startup noise
  pipe.puts "10**6\n"
  puts pipe.gets # I expect " => 1000000"
  pipe.puts "quit" # I expect exit from irb
end 

but It didn`t work too

Answer 1

Either do

IO.popen("ruby", "r+") do |pipe|
  pipe.puts "puts 10**6"
  pipe.puts "__END__"
  pipe.gets
end

or do

IO.popen("irb", "r+") do |pipe|
  pipe.puts "\n"
  3.times {pipe.gets} # startup noise
  pipe.puts "puts 10**6\n"
  pipe.gets # prompt
  pipe.gets
end