From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-09-15T21:17:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: IO.read() and IO.write()

>   I have to define File.write() for each project...

Do you mean you want:

   File.write(filename, string)

to overwrite the contents of the named file with the contents of the 
string?

I'd just do

   File.open(filename,"w") { |f| f << string }

It's not much more typing. If you use it lots, then as you say, you can 
write your own method to do it.

I find normally I'm doing something else, e.g. streaming an existing 
open I/O object into a file:

   IO.popen("...") do |src|
     File.open(file2,"w") do |dst|
       while data = src.read(16384)
         dst << data
       end
     end
   end

But it doesn't worry me that Ruby doesn't provide this natively, since 
it's so easy to construct from the tools provided.

Regards,

Brian.
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