From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-22T06:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this possible?

On Nov 21, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Aredridel wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 06:06 +0900, James Smith wrote:
>> Is there anyway to override the STDIN of a ruby program, do that  
>> when a
>> command such as 'gets' is called somewhere randomly in the  
>> program, I am
>> able to control what action is taken. i.e. i don't want it to  
>> block if
>> there is nothing in the STDIN buffer, i would like to be able to  
>> do my
>> own thing.
>>
>> NOTE: the programs will be generated randomly, so i can't just call a
>> different method (one i defined). But i can add to the code..
>
> You can use IO#reopen on STDIN, or you can undefine the constant and
> then redefine it.

Please don't mess with STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR unless you really,  
really have to.

Use $std* instead.

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/08/17/stdout-vs-stdout

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