From: Mike Sassak <msassak@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T15:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: File.write

File.write already exists. File inherits from IO which implements
#write. See http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_io.html#IO.write

As for opening a file and saving the data when done, have you used
blocks? You can do this:

File.open("foo.txt"."a+") do |myFileHandle|
  # do stuff with myFile here
end

and when the block exits, the file is automatically closed. 
This is, of course, a bit longer than your proposed write method, but
it's also much more flexible.

HTH
-mike

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 11:10, mengx@nielsenmedia.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember that File.read was added a very convience class method.
> I wonder what drawbacks would be for File.write or File.save to be
> added.  The API could be
> 
> File.write(filename, wholedata, fsync=false)
> 
> This would automattically close the file and optionally fsync data
> 
> Or has it been added and I did not know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Ted