Determine file type in Ruby

Question

How does one reliably determine a file\'s type? File extension analysis is not acceptable. There must be a rubyesque tool similar to the UNIX file(1) comman

Answer 1

This was added as a comment on this answer but should really be its own answer:

path = # path to your file

IO.popen(
  ["file", "--brief", "--mime-type", path],
  in: :close, err: :close
) { |io| io.read.chomp }

I can confirm that it worked for me.