rails - Redirecting console output to a file
console, file, ruby, ruby-on-rails
Solution
You can use override `$stdout` to redirect the console output:
$stdout = File.new('console.out', 'w')
You may also need to call this once:
$stdout.sync = true
To restore:
$stdout = STDOUT
Problem
On a bash console, if I do this: ``` cd mydir ls -l > mydir.txt ``` The > operator captures the standard input and redirects it to a file; so I get the listing of files in `mydir.txt` instead of in the standard output. Is there any way to do something similar on the rails console? I've got a ruby statement that generates lots of prints (~8k lines) and I'd like to be able to see it completely, but the console only "remembers" the last 1024 lines or so. So I thought about redirecting to a file - If anyone knows a better option, I'm all ears.