From: Simon Krahnke Date: 2009-02-24T17:04:23+09:00 Subject: Re: append static text for all files in a directory * Srinath A. (07:16) schrieb: > How to append static text for all files in application . > I want to append comment lines on top of each file in app/controllers/ Appending is "inserting" text at the end of the file. If you want to modify something before the end you got to read it all in, do your changes, and write it out again. If your Files are small enough to be read in whole, it's quite easy in Ruby: content = File.read(filename) File.open(filename, "w") do | f | f << "# comment\n" f << content end mfg, simon .... untested