Tatum

Ruby utility for outputting info to STDOUT, STDERR, a string, or a file.

The usual:

gem install tatum

Everything is done with the TTM module. In the simplest use, use TTM.puts to output any string:

TTM.puts 'whatever'

By default (and by design) TTM doesn't actually output anything to anywhere. So without further configuration, the command above wouldn't do anything. That feature allows you to pepper your code with TTM.puts commands without having to constantly do commands like this:

if verbose
  puts 'whatever'
end

To set output, use one of the following commands:

TTM.io = STDOUT          # output to STDOUT
TTM.io = STDERR          # output to STDERR
TTM.io = './path.txt'    # output to a file
TTM.io = TTM::Cache.new  # output to a stringifiable object

You can also set TTM back to not outputting to anything:

TTM.io = nil  # don't output to anything

See the documentation in tatum.rb for details.

Mike O'Sullivan mike@idocs.com