From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T10:27:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to do this? (write something to a

From: Chris Richards [mailto:evilgeenius@gmail.com] 
# This isn't a file copy.  I'm just writing data to a file.
# This is equivalent :
# File.open("/file/location/new.txt","w") {|file| file << "data 
# to write"}

have you tried rio?

require "rio"
rio("/file/location/new.txt") << astring

kind regards -botp