From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T20:39:19+09:00
Subject: Re: wite an integer to file as binary

Jim flip wrote:
> Simple problem but I'm not sure of an elegant solution, I can do it but
> all a bit minging.
> 
> Basically have a numeric value and want to write the value as a 4 byte
> integer to a binary file.
> 
> Thanks for any insight,
> Jim.
> 
File.open('output.bin', 'wb'){|f|
	f.write [val].pack('N')
}

Should do it, if you want network byte order.  ri Array#pack if you want 
more info.

-- 
Alex