From: ChrisKaelin <ck.stonedragon@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T20:55:15+09:00
Subject: Re: operating on strings using IO interface

On Apr 14, 12:27 pm, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Thomas Hafner wrote:
>
> > is there a means that a piece of software can use just the IO
> > interface transparently without needing to know, whether the data to
> > read (resp. to write) is coming from (resp. going to) a file or a
> > string? Something comparable to stringstream in C++?
>
> ri StringIO
>
> -- fxn

lol, funny, on my kubuntu-box, ri runned until yesterday, and now:
ri StringIO
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:99:in `concat': can't
convert nil into Array (TypeError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:99:in
`merge_in'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:56:in `get_class'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:52:in `get_class'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:31:in
`find_class_by_name'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:97:in
`display_class_info'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:96:in
`display_class_info'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:199:in `page'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb:77:in
`display_class_info'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:71:in
`report_class_stuff'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:106:in
`get_info_for'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:135:in
`process_args'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:134:in
`process_args'
        from /usr/bin/ri:48


Sometimes I hate those automatic updates....