From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2006-03-20T00:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: safe way to calc md5 on very large files

In article <48526dFif9i5U1@individual.net>,
  "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:

> md5 = File.open(file, 'rb') do |io|
>   dig = Digest::MD5.new
>   buf = ""
>   while io.read(4096, buf)
>     dig.update(buf)
>   end
>   dig
> end

Why we have no such method in the digest library?

I think it is useful enough to have in the library.
-- 
Tanaka Akira