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June 6, 2012 13:38
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Redirecting Stdout to string
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# For internal code | |
module Kernel | |
def capture_stdout &block | |
out = StringIO.new | |
$stdout = out | |
yield | |
return out | |
ensure | |
$stderr = STDOUT | |
end | |
end | |
# For external code | |
out = %x[ls] |
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