From: George Ogata <george.ogata@...>
Date: 2006-12-19T11:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#select docs broken?

On 12/19/06, msoulier <msoulier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find out how to use Kernel#select or IO#select.
> Unfortunately, the online docs aren't very helpful. The entry for
> IO#select tells me to see Kernel#select, which links to the same spot.
>
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005771

The old Pickaxe is a bit better...

  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.select

The only thing I'd add to that is the things in the lists don't have
to be IO objects, they just need a #to_io method which returns an IO
object.