From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2004-12-14T05:27:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ming-ruby question

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:22:19 +0900, George Moschovitis <gm@navel.gr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I would like to capture of Ming-Ruby in a Ruby String/StringIO.
> I tried the following w/o success:
> 
> tmp = $stdout
> flash = $stdout = StringIO.new
> m.output
> $stdout = tmp
> 
> The low level C output methods doesnt understand about
> $stdout and keeps dumping bytes to the standard output.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> George.
> 
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> 
Well this idea is a hack obviously but have you tried:

# mingout.rb
...
ming.output

# mingin.rb
m = IO::popen("mingout.rb")
data = m.read

The massive downside to this is that it requires two programs, and I
am sure there is
a better way, but it should work