Method: IO#puts

Defined in:

io.c

#puts(*objects) ⇒ nil

Writes the given objects to the stream, which must be open for writing; returns nil.\ Writes a newline after each that does not already end with a newline sequence. If called without arguments, writes a newline. See Line IO.

Note that each added newline is the character "\n"<//tt>, not the output record separator (<tt>$\).

Treatment for each object:

• String: writes the string.

• Neither string nor array: writes object.to_s.

• Array: writes each element of the array; arrays may be nested.

To keep these examples brief, we define this helper method:

def show(*objects)
  # Puts objects to file.
  f = File.new('t.tmp', 'w+')
  f.puts(objects)
  # Return file content.
  f.rewind
  p f.read
  f.close
end

# Strings without newlines.
show('foo', 'bar', 'baz')     # => "foo\nbar\nbaz\n"
# Strings, some with newlines.
show("foo\n", 'bar', "baz\n") # => "foo\nbar\nbaz\n"

# Neither strings nor arrays:
show(0, 0.0, Rational(0, 1), Complex(9, 0), :zero)
# => "0\n0.0\n0/1\n9+0i\nzero\n"

# Array of strings.
show(['foo', "bar\n", 'baz']) # => "foo\nbar\nbaz\n"
# Nested arrays.
show([[[0, 1], 2, 3], 4, 5])  # => "0\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n"

Returns:

• (nil)

# File 'io.c', line 8964

VALUE
rb_io_puts(int argc, const VALUE *argv, VALUE out)
{
    VALUE line, args[2];

    /* if no argument given, print newline. */
    if (argc == 0) {
        rb_io_write(out, rb_default_rs);
        return Qnil;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
        // Convert the argument to a string:
        if (RB_TYPE_P(argv[i], T_STRING)) {
            line = argv[i];
        }
        else if (rb_exec_recursive(io_puts_ary, argv[i], out)) {
            continue;
        }
        else {
            line = rb_obj_as_string(argv[i]);
        }

        // Write the line:
        int n = 0;
        if (RSTRING_LEN(line) == 0) {
            args[n++] = rb_default_rs;
        }
        else {
            args[n++] = line;
            if (!rb_str_end_with_asciichar(line, '\n')) {
                args[n++] = rb_default_rs;
            }
        }

        rb_io_writev(out, n, args);
    }

    return Qnil;
}