From: Tom Cloyd <tc@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T21:14:17+09:00
Subject: random i/o disk file

Am definitely on the steep part of the ruby learning curve. I've 
programmed a bit in several other languages. Now I need something like a 
random disk file, so I can have a large hash or something like it 
available for random access. I've looked in Programming Ruby II, and the 
Ruby Cookbook. No info there. I then tried to search the arhives at 
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml - the search 
tool seems not to be working. I then tried to find something with 
Google. No go.

I must be thinking about this wrongly, somehow.

So...how does one handle indexed (random) access to a large file - one 
too large to have in memory? I can't believe that random/like disk I/O 
is not possible in ruby.

Thanks in advance...

t.

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