IO::Like

The IO::Like module provides all of the methods of typical IO implementations such as File.

Most importantly the read, write, and seek series of methods.

A class which includes IO::Like needs to provide only a few methods in order to enable the higher level methods.

Buffering is provided by default for the methods which normally provide it in IO.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed the rewind method to work with write-only streams.
• Fixed the read, gets, and readline methods to return partial data if they have such data but receive low level errors before reaching a stopping point.
• Renamed all private methods so that it is highly unlikely that they will be accidentally overridden.
• Eliminated warnings caused by referencing uninitialized instance variables.
• Improved the documentation for the read, gets, and readline methods.

Limitations:

• Only up to version 1.8.6 of Ruby‘s IO interface is implemented.