From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T08:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: capturing standard out?

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 07:18 +0900, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Is there an easy way to capture standard out in Ruby, so that "puts"
> throws its output into a buffer instead of just popping up on the
> screen?

You can set the $stdout global variable to point to whatever object you
like, as long as it adheres to a simple interface. Kernel#puts simply
redirects to $stdout.


Cheers,
Daniel