From: J J <jj5412@...>
Date: 2001-05-25T00:41:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15672] Re: Disabling stderr

That takes care of the error about assigning to a constant (oops), but still
prints the exception to the console.

Regards,
  JJ

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"Jim Menard" <jimm@eris.io.com> wrote in message
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> "J J" <jj5412@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > How about:
> >
> > nulFile = File.open('nul', 'w')      # UNIX: nulFile =
> > File.open('/dev/null', 'w')
> > STDERR = nulFile
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > Trouble is, exceptions don't seem to print to STDERR, or STDOUT.
>
> Untested answer: try assigning to $stderr and $stdout (global variables)
> instead of STERR and STDOUT (constants containing the default values of
> $stderr and $stdout).
>
> Jim
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