From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-22T14:17:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to output result to text file?

Bill Kelly wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> From: "nkb" <nkb@pacific.net.sg>
> 
>>With ruby, I typed
>>ruby mytestscript.rb > output.txt
>>
>>The result still prints out to the standard microsoft commandline 
>>console output and not to the file output.txt. How can I achieve the 
>>output to a text file?
> 
> 
> That's odd.... Which version of windows are you running?
> On my win2k box,
> 
> ruby -e "puts 'hi'" > zz
> 
> ...creates a file called "zz" with "hi\n" in it as expected.

Is the code is writing to STDERR?

The you would need

ruby mytestscript.rb 2> output.txt

James