Ruby's open() call has more tricks up its sleeves than you know!
Tag: files
Episode #480: Read and Write
Shortcuts to reading and writing files in Ruby.
Episode #471: Which
Stop writing non-portable Ruby file-management code.
Episode #470: Binary Mode
Understand once and for all how, when, and why to open files in binary mode.
Episode #468: Line Endings
A little history lesson about computer text formats
How to make your Ruby code work on Windows PCs
Windows users can feel like second-class-citizens in the Ruby world. Ruby gems and tools often don't work quite right on Windows hosts. But we can fix this. Making your code …
Episode #314: Filesystem Testing
Today we'll learn how to test code that interacts with the filesystem.
Episode #313: Temporary Directory
In today's episode, we'll learn how to robustly manage temporary directories in Ruby.
Episode #309: Globbing with Chris Strom
In today's episode, guest chef Chris Strom show us how to list and filter files with advanced glob patterns, from within Ruby.
Episode #298: File Find
In this "lost episode", we'll learn how to use Ruby's "find" library to dig through files on disk.