From: alex f <alex@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T08:22:48+09:00
Subject: STDOUT and $stdout

hi folks

I've been using for Ruby for a bit now, but I've never felt happy that I've
understood the difference purposes of $stdout and STDOUT (and -in & -err).

In particular, I'm interested in doing things similar to what I did in Perl
with select and tie-ing STD filehandles to classes temporarily then
returning to program default values. I've seen an interesting example of a
string-based class implementing IO-like behaviour in 'The Ruby Way'
(223-225), but I'm not sure how to manipulate Ruby's STDOUT and $stdout to
do useful things with these sort of classes (using .reopen()?), so I'd
appreciate pointers to threads or example code.

Best wishes
alex

alex fenton

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