From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2003-01-08T10:10:15+09:00
Subject: MIME type for Ruby scripts?

Do Ruby scripts and source files have a standard MIME type or two? If not may 
I suggest:

Ruby scripts (executable, with a shebang line?)
	application/x-ruby-script
Ruby source (everything else - not executable, libraries, etc.)
	text/x-ruby-source

These two would be hard to tell apart just by file extension, though, so 
perhaps we should have just the one, in the vein of Perl and Python:
Perl scripts (*.perl, *.pl)
	application/x-perl
Python scripts (*.py)
	application/x-python

Java uses:
Java classes (*.class)
	application/x-java
Java source (*.java)
	text/x-java

Those were taken from the definitions in Konqueror's file associations. I have 
no idea how official they are, but if we want to follow in the same line of 
thinking my suggestion would be:
Ruby scripts (*.rb)
	application/x-ruby

Maybe eruby should have one as well:
Eruby source files (*.rhtml)
	text/x-eruby

Comments? Suggestions?

Tim Bates
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