From: James Byrne <byrnejb@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T04:56:53+09:00
Subject: Re: puts behaviour

Daniel Harple wrote:

> 
> 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

Without examining the code, which is probably the next step, I speculate 
that these '.'s are set by Test::Unit to provide support for some sort 
of progress status bar.  I am not sufficently well versed in Ruby (I 
wrote my first non trival program in it last week) to have encountered 
things like $stdout.sync and IO.flush. However, having this new 
information combined with my previous experience with the mysterous '.'s 
leads me to the inference above.

This is no more than an inquiry as to why these things appeared 
unexpectedly in my output, which happened to be directory strings 
wherein a prefix of . has rather profound implications.

Thanks for the information.  It clarifies a few items of confusion.

Regards,
Jim

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