From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T05:55:30+09:00
Subject: Ruby-esque approaches to adding a line at the beginning of a file.

On our local lug mail list a discussion came up about using Ruby (as opposed 
to Perl) for an application that involved inserting a new line at the front 
of an existing file.

(As a newbie), I proposed an approach like this (with help from the Ruby 
Cookbook which I'm working my way through).

t = "New first line of file.\n"
t = t + open("sample_file") { |f| f.read }
open("sample_file", "w") { |f| f.write(t)}

However, it doesn't appear (to me) to be very Ruby-esque--I'm wondering how 
others on this list might approach such a task.

Randy Kramer