redirect to stderr

[Joao Miguel Ferreira]

Hello all,

Is there a way to remove from the output all the "puts" and "ap" text lines printed by the code being tested or even printed by the spec code itself ?

Ideally it would be possible to only see spec context and describe lines and all other things would be redirected somewhere else. stderr is a good option since it would allow the tester to capture all that into a text file as evidences for alter inspection

Would be very nice for me if such an option exists.

Cheers, thank you

Joao

[Jon Rowe]

Hello

RSpec tries not to monkey patch standard Ruby methods, so `puts` etc will always try to output to `$stdout`, we do provide a matcher which redirects `$stdout` and/or `$stderr` to a `StringIO` temporarily, which can be used as:

```

expect { code }.to output.to_stdout # and/or `to_stderr`

```

But thats temporary and has a few limitations (we don't overwrite `STDOUT` / `STDERR` and if code has captured the globals we obviously can't change those references.

If you wanted to do this yourself throughout the spec run its very easy to do in Ruby, for example to redirect stdout to stderr during the run of a test you could do:

```

RSpec.configure do |config|

  config.around(:example) do |example|

    original_stdout = $stdout

    $stdout = $stderr

    example.call

    $stdout = original_stdout

  end

end

```

Note it would be important to set stdout back to get the normal output during the spec run.

Hope that helps achieve what you want.

Cheers

Jon

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[Phil Pirozhkov]

If you stick to a convention that you output debug messages to stderr and pipeable program output goes to stdout, it will be easier to separate the two.

For better or worse, RSpec outputs to stdout.