From: Dalibor Sramek <dali@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T17:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing ruby warning level

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:47:23AM +0900, Carl Youngblood wrote:
> Okay, since I can't change the warning level to where I need it to be, is
> there a way of temporarily redirecting output to /dev/null or something?
> I'm not sure how to do that from inside a ruby script.

Try:

olderr = $stderr.clone
$stderr.flush
$stderr.reopen("/dev/null", "w")
...
...
$stderr.flush
$stderr.reopen(olderr)
$olderr.close

I believe "flush" should not be necessary but I needed it to make it work
(very quick test on Windows Ruby 1.6.7).

Dalibor Sramek