From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T19:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Non exclusive file access

bino_oetomo wrote:
>
> ---Start----
> irb
> irb(main):001:0> my_file = File.new("/mnt/ramdisk0/line3", modestring="a+")
my_file = File.open("/mnt/ramdisk0/line3", "w")

> 2. the file.puts command always write to the end of the file, How to make
> ruby just overide the content of the file with it's output ?
> (just like bash ==>  echo "something" >./thisfile )

The mode "a+" appends to a file, "w" overwrites an existing file, or 
creates a new file.
See here:
http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#14


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