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Pseudo I/O on String object.

Commonly used to simulate `$stdio` or `$stderr`

Examples

require 'stringio'

io = StringIO.new
io.puts "Hello World"
io.string #=> "Hello World\n"
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October 11, 2010
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Useful for mocking out IO methods like #gets and #puts

This class is helpful when testing certain classes of software libraries that are dependent on console input and output, similar to some testing uses of Java’s StringBuffer