From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-12T19:16:09+09:00
Subject: can't flush print when download open-uri

I'm confused. why won't this print? I tried flushing the $defout and $stdout as well as the source_file_io, but that doesn't work either.

# download
prioritized_locations.each do |location|
  begin
    source_file_io = File.open(self.source_path,'w')
    remote_file = open(location)
    while incoming = remote_file.read(512)
      source_file_io.write(incoming)
    # THIS WON'T THIS PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!
      print "\ca{source_file_io.pos}KB/#{@source_size}KB" 
    end
  rescue
    puts "#{location} failed"
    remote_file.close unless remote_file.nil?
    source_file_io.close unless source_file_io.nil?
    next   # try next location
  else
    puts ' Done.'
    break  # we got it
  ensure
    remote_file.close unless remote_file.nil?
    source_file_io.close unless source_file_io.nil?
  end
end

-t0