From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2010-11-17T06:33:32+09:00
Subject: File#truncate fills file with zeros

Hello!

Running this following code:

f = File.open(filename, 'w')
f.truncate(10)
f.close

leaves the file filled with 10 zero bytes. Its pretty unexpected,
since the documentation makes no mention of this
(http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M002539).

File.truncate(filename, 10)

works fine, leaving any pre-existing bytes intact. Looking at the
example I assume this has to do with the File#truncate method
expecting me to write some bytes and then truncate them.

Just putting this out there for the next confused person since Google
made no mention of this!