From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T05:47:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-6764 ] tempfile.rb should let you preserve a file

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006, noreply@rubyforge.org wrote:
> Initial Comment:
> Hello, this is not a bug but a feature request.  Perhaps these should be addressed to some other place?  In any case:
> 
> There are times when it would be nice to not automatically delete Tempfiles - when debugging for instance, but also in cases when an error occurs and you want to be able to examine what was going on.  What would be fantastic is a 'preserve' method that you can call that prevents the file from being 'reaped'.  I wasn't able to implement a patch to do this, unfortunately.

This would be handy to me, and if there's interest I'd like to attempt
to write a patch for it.  Anybody have objections?

Thanks,
Ben