Redirect the "puts" command output to a log file

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Published on 2008-10-22T04:46:52Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 20:41 UTC
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Hi, I am working on creating a daemon in Ruby using the daemons gem. I want to add output from the daemon into a log file. So I am wondering what is the easiest way to redirect puts from the console to a log file?

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