Why doesn't Ruby have a real StringBuffer or StringIO?

Question

I recently read a nice post on using StringIO in Ruby. What the author doesn\'t mention, though, is that StringIO is just an \"I.\" There\'s no \

Answer 1

I looked at the ruby documentation for StringIO, and it looks like what you want is StringIO#string, not StringIO#to_s

Thus, change your code to:

s = StringIO.new
s << 'foo'
s << 'bar'
s.string