From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-09-22T11:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: redirect STDOUT to function?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:07:16 +0900, Jonathan Castello wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm using Ruby as a scripting language for a program that supports the
> WSH scripting interface, and I have a small problem: 'puts' and other
> output functions don't work (because STDOUT is invalid), as with 'gets'
> (but with STDIN). I'd like to redirect all accesses to STDOUT and STDIN
> to my own functions, which would handle the IO through the main
> application's scripting interface. I know that $stdout and others can be
> reassigned to other IO objects, but I haven't yet found a way to
> reliably redirect through a function instead. Of course, this is
> probably because I'm relatively new to Ruby. Does anyone know how I
> could do something like this?~Jonathan Castello

Create a brand new IO object that's backed by the function you want. 
(Maybe a thread and a StringIO would do the trick.)

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/