From: rio4ruby <Christopher.Kleckner@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T15:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Where is the definition of File.read()?

On Sep 6, 10:41 pm, optman <opt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 7 ,   1 15 , rio4ruby <Christopher.Kleck...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 6, 9:41 pm, optman <opt...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 9 7 ,   1 24 , John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
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> > > I have seen a line of code like
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> > > put( File.read(sourceFile),targetFile)
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> > > if File.read() return the entire file content, what if sourceFile is a
> > > large file?
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> > Then you are in trouble if you use File.read(). From your example I
> > can don't know what the method #put does, but one might logically
> > surmise that its function is to put a string (the output of File.read)
> > into targetFile.
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> > Reading a file into a string and then writing that string to a file is
> > not a good solution for large files. The module ::FileUtils contains a
> > method #cp which very efficiently (by ruby standards) copies one file
> > to another -- without requiring that the entire contents of the source
> > file be copied into memory first.
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> > Rio (http://rio.rubyforge.org) will also copy a file without requiring
> > the source file being read into memory first:
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> >   rio('sourceFile') > rio('targetFile')
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> Method #put is from Capistrano, which upload file to remote server by
> ssh. I found it don't work correctly with large file, maybe this is
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You might want to look at this:
http://devblog.famundo.com/articles/2007/03/10/improving-capistranos-put-command