Copies stdout (or any other IO stream) contents to a file or another stream. Works with subprocesses too.
# io-tee-demo.rb
require 'io/tee'
$stdout.tee('output.log')
puts "Hello, world!"$stdout is effectively copied into file output.log while still being streamed as a standard output.
$ ruby io-tee-demo.rb
Hello, world!
$ cat output.log
Hello, world!
Obviously it works with more than one stream copied into the same file
# io-tee-demo.rb
require 'io/tee'
$stdout.tee('full-output.log')
$stderr.tee('full-output.log')
puts 'Hello, world'
$stderr.puts '[DEBUG] Debug info'One can suppress stderr during execution but still get it logged into a file alongside stdout
$ ruby io-tee-demo.rb 2> /dev/null
Hello, world
$ cat full-output.log
Hello, world
[DEBUG] Debug info
A keyword argument of append: false can be passed to the IO#tee
method in order to overwrite the given file upon start of writing.
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