Okay, real simple question, but somehow I am missing it in the API: how
do create an IO object that represents stdout? I'm using a certain
function that receives writable IO objects and I wanted to pass in the
standard output as a stream.
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Why not just pass $stdout itself?
Ammar
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Jonathan Bale <webmaster@indicium.us>wrote:
Okay, real simple question, but somehow I am missing it in the API: how
do create an IO object that represents stdout? I'm using a certain
function that receives writable IO objects and I wanted to pass in the
standard output as a stream.
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Jonathan Bale wrote:
Okay, real simple question, but somehow I am missing it in the API: how
do create an IO object that represents stdout? I'm using a certain
function that receives writable IO objects and I wanted to pass in the
standard output as a stream.
When your program starts, the constant STDOUT is an open file descriptor
for STDOUT, and the global variable $stdout also points to it.
Using the global variable is the recommended approach, as it adds more
flexibility for pointing it to a different object like a StringIO
without having warnings about constants being redefined.
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Instead of modifying the global variable $stdout, you could just pass in an
instance of StringIO to your method/class. I passed in two instances of
StringIO to one of my classes for mocking STDIN and STDOUT.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 03:10, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
Jonathan Bale wrote:
> Okay, real simple question, but somehow I am missing it in the API: how
> do create an IO object that represents stdout? I'm using a certain
> function that receives writable IO objects and I wanted to pass in the
> standard output as a stream.When your program starts, the constant STDOUT is an open file descriptor
for STDOUT, and the global variable $stdout also points to it.Using the global variable is the recommended approach, as it adds more
flexibility for pointing it to a different object like a StringIO
without having warnings about constants being redefined.
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Brian Candler wrote:
Jonathan Bale wrote:
Okay, real simple question, but somehow I am missing it in the API: how
do create an IO object that represents stdout? I'm using a certain
function that receives writable IO objects and I wanted to pass in the
standard output as a stream.When your program starts, the constant STDOUT is an open file descriptor
for STDOUT, and the global variable $stdout also points to it.Using the global variable is the recommended approach, as it adds more
flexibility for pointing it to a different object like a StringIO
without having warnings about constants being redefined.
The $stdout variable works fine. I was a little confused with $stdout at
first, because the documentation I found either does not describe what
it is, or talks about it as a "file descriptor". But it is actually an
IO object:
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> $stdout.class
=> IO
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