From: Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T05:24:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Redirecting standard error

Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:04:04PM +0900, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> > I saw many examples about how to redirect standard output to - say - a
> > string buffer.
> > What about standard error? Has anybody already done this?
> 
> I wrote and currently use a StringIO.  You can do something like this:
[snip] 
> If you want to have a look at it, I'll put it online at
> http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/stringio.rb by tonight.
> 

Thanks a lot. I'll have a look at it.
I talked about a string buffer, but actually I'd like to redirect stderr
to something else. Thus what I need is something like a CustomIO that
can be subclassed to a StringIO or something else, with just a few
methods to rewrite.

_gilles.