From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T21:15:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How to append some data at the beginning of a file

> 2. newfile.puts(File.read("test")) will read the entire file into
> memory. Don't do this on large files - use the original way (or even
> better, loop over the file with File#read(size)). For small files,
> this read() is better.

Good point! (Only that *prepending* data to a file which is so big that
it would be a memory hog, is probably a nightmare anyway.

> 3. newfile.puts(File.read("test")) will put an extra newline at the
> end. Use either
>  newfile << File.read("test")
> or
>  newfile.write(File.read("test"))

Right, I overlooked this! Thanks for pointing this out.

Ronald