From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-06-29T17:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading String Data as a File

Ryan Davis wrote:
> ri StringIO

That will work if the code in question will accept an open File/IO 
object as an argument.

If it takes only a pathname argument, then you're stuck with writing the 
data to a file (ri Tempfile may help).

If you have control of the target code, then refactor it. e.g.

class Foo
  # original entry point
  def read_file(pathname)
    File.open(pathname,"rb") { |f| read_io(f) }
  end

  # entry point for already-open object, e.g. STDIN, a StringIO etc.
  def read_io(io)
    io.each_line { ... }
  end
end
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