From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T21:39:59+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.expect: where can I find documentation??

On Nov 28, 6:14 am, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Dan Caugherty wrote:
>
> > Hey all --
>
> > Can anyone point me to the documentation (or the source!) that defines
> > the IO.expect method (parameters, return values, etc.)?
> > I can't seem to find it anywhere.
>
> > Also, I'm interested in extending this routine to use Floats (not just
> > Fixnums) as timeout values (for a granularity of, say, 50
> > milliseconds).
>
> > Thanks,
> > -- Dan C.
>
> Dan,
> Where are you finding IO.expect  ??
> My Ruby (1.8) doesn't seem to have it. ri tells me nothing.
> Creating an IO object:
> i = IO.new 2
> ( the handle for stderr )
> Then doing:
> i.methods.sort
> Returns no method expect. Are you using some library that extends the
> IO class?

It's expect.rb from the standard library pty extension. The docs are
in the source:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ext/pty/README
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ext/pty/README.expect

Regards,
Jordan