From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-01-05T01:14:35+09:00
Subject: Re: When did IO::read appear?


On Jan 4, 2004, at 9:41, Bil Kleb wrote:

> I wrote some code on a ruby 1.7.2 (2002-05-29) machine using
> IO.read, but when I moved it to a ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24)
> machine I got an exception,
>
>  NameError: undefined method `read' for IO:Class
>
> What's the idiomatic workaround for this sort of thing?

To be backwards compatible, you can use:

     content = File.open(name) { |f| f.read}


Cheers

Dave