From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-05T00:53:01+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI uses file size to distinguish between regular values and files

Hi,

In message "Re: CGI uses file size to distinguish between regular values and files"
    on 03/11/04, Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> writes:

|> I understand the problem, but not yet think of the best solution.  Any
|> concrete ideas?
|
|I think 
|
|  File.open(upload, 'w') {|f| f.write(file.read) }
|
|is good enough except it reads whole file in memory at once.  It is
|a problem for big file.
|
|So I propose IO#copy and StringIO#copy to able to write:
|
|  File.open(upload, 'w') {|f| file.copy(f) }

How about

  require 'fileutils'
  File.open(upload, 'w') {|f| FileUtils.copy_stream(file,f)}

?  It's bit longer, but works now without any modifies.

							matz.