From: uncutstone wu <uncutstone@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T20:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing stdout

Damphyr wrote:
> I have code that prints to stdout (using puts and/or print).
> I'm loading the code from a file (pretty much the way rake handles
> rakefiles) and would like to capture the output from the loaded code.
> I don't want to redirect stdout into a file or anywhere else, I need the
> output in a string.
> 
> ---file1.rb
> puts "Output of meaningful code omitted"
> ---loader.rb
> 
> begin
> ###do some magic to get the stdout from this point on into a string
> load file1.rb
> ###do some more magic to put stdout back where it was.
> end
> 

How about do it this way:

s = `ruby file1.rb` , you don't need to load file1.rb in .

Best Regards.

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