write strings to the stream (buffer) with the << method, then flush the buffer with flush.
ios = IO.new( 1, "w" )
ios.puts "IO, IO, it's off to the computer lab I go."
ios << "Ask not " << "for whom the bells toll." << " -John Donne"
ios.flush # => Ask not for whom the bells toll. -John Donne
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