From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-10T03:47:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby binary temp file



On Oct 9, 12:00 pm, wi...@yahoo.com wrote:
> require 'tempfile'
> f = Tempfile.open 'tmp'
>
> will open f in text mode (mode = 'w', not 'wb'). Any non-hacky way to
> open this in binary mode? I can, of course, make f, close it and open
> it as a real file - it's just this is not atomic.

Not that I can see.

May I suggest file-temp? It opens in binary mode by default:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/file-temp

Regards,

Dan