From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2003-08-23T20:47:24+09:00
Subject: Apache::Request isn't a File

Hi all,
I'm trying to get Ruby-GD to play nicely with Apache. Ideally, Ruby-GD
would just write directly to Apache's output, to enable me to
dynamically generate images without using a temporary file. But when I
do this:

im.png $stdout

GD complains that the Apache::Request object assigned to $stdout isn't
of type File - a prime example of where duck typing should be applied
but isn't, since Apache::Request provides nearly all the methods of File
and would probably work perfectly if it weren't for this check. So,
apart from modifying the source of GD, is there a neat way of somehow
encapsulating an Apache::Request object in a descendant of File so that
this will work?

Tim Bates
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