From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-12-03T19:01:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding/decoding a image as Base64 (fails under Ruby1.9 but works under Ruby1.8)

El Jueves, 3 de Diciembre de 2009, Lars Christensen escribió:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Iñaki 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"

Yes. It seems that usng "to_s" could be a bit problematic under Ruby1.9 due to 
the new behaviour...
Thanks.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>