Read contents of a local file into a variable in Rails

Question

All I want to do is get all the content from a local file and store it in a variable. How?

File.read(@icon.full_filename).each {|l| r += l}

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Answer 1

I think you should consider using IO.binread("/path/to/file") if you have a recent ruby interpreter (i.e. >= 1.9.2)

You could find IO class documentation here http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/IO.html