Question

Can someone point me to some documentation/libraries for working with files in a Rails app?

Specifically I need to scan folders for files and for each one read & parse some data from it. I’ve not done this in Ruby before so not sure where to look.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Parsing files is very easy in Ruby. To do it in Rails, you simply use the Ruby file libraries. Without knowing what you want to do I can’t give you any examples, but I can point you to the Ruby API.

File: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/File.html

Directory: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Dir.html