rails - Redirecting console output to a file

Question

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

Answer 1

A quick one-off solution:

irb:001> f = File.new('statements.xml', 'w')
irb:002> f << Account.find(1).statements.to_xml
irb:003> f.close

Create a JSON fixture:

irb:004> f = File.new(Rails.root + 'spec/fixtures/qbo/amy_cust.json', 'w')
irb:005> f << JSON.pretty_generate((q.get :customer, 1).as_json)
irb:006> f.close