From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T10:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.1 write to file?


On Mar 14, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Kristian S�rensen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have upgraded to ruby 1.8.1 .. and suddenly now my file-writing does 
> not work. I get an error like:
>
> script:line:in `close': uninitialized stream (IOError)
>
> The code looks like this:
>
> File.open("e_macs.txt", "a") { |f|
>   f << Time.new.to_s
>   f << "\n"
> }
>
> What happend in writing to files from 1.6 to 1.8? I tried my way 
> through rubycentral.com .. but apparently the API is not updated.
>
> How do I handle file writing (or reading) in Ruby 1.8?
>
>

Can you show us your ruby -v output?  I'm on "ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) 
[powerpc-darwin]" and it works without a problem.

Chad