2011-08-24T15:41:28-04:00 http://benevolentcode.com/ George Anderson 2011-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 http://benevolentcode.com/blog/2011/03/08/temporarily-redirect-stdout-in-ruby <div class="highlight"><pre><code class="ruby"><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">silence</span> <span class="n">orig_stdout</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="vg">$stdout</span> <span class="vg">$stdout</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">File</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">new</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;/dev/null&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;w&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">yield</span> <span class="k">ensure</span> <span class="vg">$stdout</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">orig_stdout</span> <span class="k">end</span> <span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s1">&#39;now you see it&#39;</span> <span class="n">silence</span> <span class="k">do</span> <span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s2">&quot;now you don&#39;t&quot;</span> <span class="k">end</span> <span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s1">&#39;now you see it again&#39;</span> </code></pre> </div>