From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T04:10:39+09:00
Subject: Re: File.write(path, data)?

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 02:17:19 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> on 03/07/20, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> |I am glad to see File.read(path) in Ruby 1.8.  But what about
> |File.write(path, data)?
> I've never felt the need for "write at once".  Do you feel often?

I actually use the pattern

   File.open(target, "w") { |f| f.print data }

often enough that it might be nice to encapsulate it as: File.write(target, 
data). (I sometimes use f.puts instead of f.print, but if you're just 
writing what may be raw data, f.print is better.)

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.07.20
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