From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T21:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocks question

If you don't need to capture the svn output, try Kernel#system. Svn
will write directly to STDOUT.

If you do need to capture, then 1. I don't know ;-) 2. it'd depend on
whether you're on windows or unix

J.

On 7/27/06, Jon Leighton <turnip@turnipspatch.com> wrote:
> Matthew Smillie wrote:
> > On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:46, Jon Leighton wrote:
> >
> >> end
> >> steps. I
> >> don't understand why this happens, can anyone explain my options
> >> please?
> >
> > I can't reproduce this on my machine, but it sounds very much like
> > it's being caused by buffered output.  This might work:
> >
> > def step(msg)
> >    print msg + "..."
> >    STDOUT.flush
> >    yield
> >    puts "done"
> > end
>
> Thanks, that works a treat. Now, another related question. Part of the
> process involves checking the code out from Subversion. As Subversion
> checks out, it writes lines to STDOUT saying what it is downloading. I
> would like this to be outputted by by script in real time, rather than
> when the whole command has finished running. Currently I am using a
> method like this:
>
> def command(command)
>   open("|#{command}", "r") do |f|
>     f.each do |line|
>       puts line
>       STDOUT.flush
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> However, that doesn't seem to work. The output still only comes when the
> command has fully completed. Any ideas of what I can do?
>
> Thanks!
>
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