From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T05:16:02+09:00
Subject: $stderr.reopen bug?

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Hi,
I'm working through what seems like it should be a simple operation,
re-routing STDERR to point elsewhere. I can do the following

$stderr.reopen("/dev/null")

which works fine. But what I'd like to do is capture that output, so I
figured StringIO would be the way to go. According to the docs for IO#reope=
n
it can take an IO object as it's only parameter, and use that to re-open,
but when I do the following

require 'stringio'
str_io =3D StringIO.new
$stderr.reopen(str_io)

I get

TypeError: can't convert StringIO into String

any ideas? Is the documentation just wrong, and it can only take a string
arg? Or will it take only a File IO object?

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