From: Andy Elvey <andy.elvey@...>
Date: 2002-03-03T06:08:29+09:00
Subject: (Newbie query) - appending to an output IO stream

Hi all .

 I've been going through the "Programming Ruby" book (_very_ good, too), but
I've hit a snag .... :-) .
( btw - I'm using RubyWin , 1.6.5 , Win98)

On the bottom of page 110, there's a code snippet that appends an object to
an output IO stream. The code is as follows -
endl = "\n"
$stdout << 99 << " red balloons" << endl

Running this using IRb gives -
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory
(irb):2:in `write'
(irb):2:in `<<'
(irb):2:in `irb_binding'

So - why is this code not working ....?  Thanks in advance !