From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T20:01:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to append some data at the beginning of a file

> I am newbie to Ruby so please spare me if the question looks silly. My
> question is how to append data at the beginning of a file?

This is not so much a Ruby question, since nearly no operating system
directly
allows appending data to the beginning of a file. The general solution
is to create a new file, putting there the data in the right order,
delete
the old file and rename the new file to the name of the old one.

Renaming a file is done like this:

  File.rename("oldname","newname") 

This raises the exception SystemCallError, if renaming fails.

HTH

Ronald
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