apeiros / filestring

Treat files like plain normal strings

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FileString

Summary

Use files just like plain normal strings.

Also See

IRC:The channel #ruby-lang on irc.freenode.org

I’m there under the nick apeiros.

Beware, I’m idling there 24/7, so my nick being in there doesn’t mean I’m in front of the computer.

Description

FileString is a class that wraps a path on the filesystem (a file) and provides an exact copy of the String API. This means you can code as if you had a String and your file on the disk gets manipulated just magically.

Quick Try

  1. Download from github and unpack (or clone)
  2. Change into the filestring’s lib directory: `cd some_dir/filestring/lib`
  3. Try in irb: `irb -rfilestring` You can create a FileString by doing e.g. `fs = FileString.new(’/some/path.txt’)`. Apply some mutating String methods like []=, upcase! or gsub! and watch the file on disk change.

Install

FileString is not currently a gem or prepared to be installed. You’ll have to manually copy it into site_ruby.

Credits & Contributions

Empty so far - time for you to do something to end up here!

Known bugs

Currently none.