[Rails] Re: interactive web app

Mathias Wittlock
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:05:11 -0000

On 7/5/06, User <exl2@cornell.edu> wrote:
> but how do i redirect the stdout to a file if it is constantly being
> written (the program does not end, it will keep writing to stdout )
>
> thanks
>

I believe the file gets written to while the application is running
(compare with logfiles). Instead of printing it in the console it just
writes to the file. So the file will get updated every couple of
seconds as the program outputs more text.

Mathias.