From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T01:22:44+09:00
Subject: Re: while !file.eof?

It's not always appropriate, but File.read() is pretty slick too...
I'm pretty sure it's just syntactic sugar, but it makes things quite clear.

data=File.read("somefile")

If you want to just get content specific lines for instance, you'd use
scan on top of that.

may_lines=File.read("/var/log/messages").scan(/May .+/)