From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-24T22:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: redirecting stdout to a String

On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:50 AM, Mark Volkmann wrote:

> I wrote a unit test for a method that writes to stdout. I got it to
> work, but I'm not sure my approach was the best. Is there a more
> recommended way to do this?
>
>     # Create a String with a singleton write method
>     # that allows it to take the place of stdout.
>     actual = '''
>     def actual.write(data); self << data; end

See the standard library, StringIO.

James Edward Gray II