From: Lars Christensen <larschbelunktumdk@...>
Date: 2009-12-03T17:04:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding/decoding a image as Base64 (fails under Ruby1.9 but 	works under Ruby1.8)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
>  File.open("base64.txt","w") do |file|
>    file.write [open("icon.png").read].pack("m")
>  end
>
>  File.open('new_icon.png', 'wb') do |file|
>    file << (IO.readlines('base64.txt').to_s.unpack('m')).first
>  end
>
> Which is the difference when using Ruby1.9? how to solve it?
> Thanks a lot.

In Ruby 1.9, Array#to_s is an alias for Array#inspect.

In Ruby 1.8, Array#to_s worked like Array#join with no arguments.

Try this:
   IO.read "base64.txt"