On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:06 AM, GregD wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm testing java classed using rspec and jruby.  The java super class
> is trapping an exception and sending a custom message to stdout along
> with the original exception meaasage.  The original exception is a
> SAXParseException, if that really matters.  Well, my test is to see if
> the child object class can handle a garbled XML message a certain
> way.   The test passes, but I get the nasty java exception stuff that
> is being sent to stdout when the tests are running, yuk.  I tried
> closing and opening stdout before and after that particular test and
> that did not work or I did it wrong.  And I'm not sure this is
> desirable if the test fails.   Any ideas on this other than to replace
> the java with ruby or have the java not to dump to stdout?  ;-)   Both
> of which, I can not do.  But, I can live with the nastiness of this,
> if there is no possible way around it.

I'd like to bump this message because I am facing a similar situation. 

What's a good technique for spec'ing code that prints to STDOUT yet keeps the 
spec output nice and clean?

cr

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