From: Paul Harrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2010-03-03T11:25:58+09:00
Subject: Re: A gem for handling temporary file(s)?

Albert Schlef wrote:
> I'm writing a program that needs to generate two or three temporary
> files.
> 
> (Specifically: my program runs a shell command and I need to pass the
> shell command a path to a non-existing file which it will dump data to.)
> 
> Is there a 'gem' that manages these things? Preferably it should remove
> the files when the script finishes or whatever.
> 
> Of course, if Ruby supports this built-in that's fine too (I did 'ri
> File' and 'ri FileUtils' but founds nothing).

ri Tempfile

that'll get you started
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