From: Karl Gabel <kaguga@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T01:31:08+09:00
Subject: Re: A little advice on writing a logWriter

Alexander Jonsson schrieb:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to Ruby and not so experienced programmer in overall but i
> manage to do "ok". Now I started to program a bit in Ruby and wanted
> to write a logWriter program but the problem is that Ruby doesnt have
> I/O Stream functions like java and C++.
>
log_fd = File.new("test_log",  "w+")
or just open an existing one

log_fd.write(str)
or
log_fd << "str"
log_fd.flush

you can also use sprintf

log_fd.write(sprintf "%d", var)

log_fd.close

have a look to
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html
 
is this you are looking for?

regards

karl