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Description: get the mimetype of a file directly in Ruby
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/mimetype-fu/
Clone URL: git://github.com/foca/mimetype-fu.git
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Alex Egg (author)
Wed Mar 05 20:58:57 -0800 2008
mattetti (committer)
Wed Mar 05 22:30:24 -0800 2008
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folder MIT-LICENSE Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
folder README Tue Jan 29 00:04:33 -0800 2008 switched the non windows command to -bir and ad... [mattAimonetti]
folder Rakefile Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
folder init.rb Wed Jun 13 21:22:46 -0700 2007 moved the constant to be set only once [mattAimonetti]
folder install.rb Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
folder lib/ Wed Mar 05 22:30:24 -0800 2008 added video/3gpp2 mime type [Alex Egg]
folder spec/ Wed Jun 13 21:22:46 -0700 2007 moved the constant to be set only once [mattAimonetti]
folder tasks/ Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
folder test/ Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
folder uninstall.rb Wed Jun 13 15:20:31 -0700 2007 add plugin structure [mattAimonetti]
README
MimetypeFu
==========

Some great Rails plugins like attachment_fu use the content type/mime type of a file to validate the instance of an 
object.
The plugin usually gets the mime type using the CGI request, however, if the file is already in the system, this 
approach won't work.
Adobe Flash is also known not to send the proper mime type.
As an alternative, I wrote mimetype_fu, a simple plugin which will try to guess the mimetype of a file based on its 
extension.

Note that mimetype_fu only looks at the extension to define its mime type if you are using Windows!

http://code.google.com/p/mimetype-fu/

Thanks to forestcarlisle for his big report and patch.


Copyright (c) 2008 Matt Aimonetti, released under the MIT license