From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T04:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: puts behaviour

On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:29 PM, James Byrne wrote:

> Are these '.'s pushed onto some sort of string variable in TestUnit
> wherein 'puts' is redefined so that the string is prefaced to any
> argument passed to puts and then cleared?

I don't quite know what you are asking, but --

If you do not want buffered output, set $stdout.sync = true (or  
$stderr). If $stdout.sync is false (and it is by default), the line  
will not be flushed until a newline. You could also just call IO#flush.

-- Daniel