From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-11T05:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: equivalent of unix "file <filename>" in ruby?

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On 10/10/06, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Ruby Rails wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I'm trying to find out what is the equivalent of file <filename> from
>> > unix in ruby. Basically this command gives the file type - ASCII, BINARY
>> > etc.
>> There is currently nothing written in ruby that uses a library of
>> signatures to attempt to figure out the file type of a file.  The best you
>> can do right now is a library that looks at the file suffix and determines
>> what file type matches it.
>
> That's not *quite* true. I think it's safer to say that there's
> nothing currently working in Ruby that does that. However, CRUserS
> (the Calgary Ruby Users' Society) is working on a libmagic port to
> Ruby as part of an ongoing hacking night. I'm not sure their current
> status, and hope that they'll be setting things up to link into
> MIME::Types when it's all done, but they are working on it and there
> is code in their source repository on RubyForge.

there is

   http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/

is this their project probably?

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/libmagic-ruby/

cheers.

-a
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