FileWrapper

FileWrapper is a Rails plugin and RubyGem which wraps the command line utility ‘file’ to detect the mime-type of a file.

Installation as Rails plugin

From the Rails project root, execute:

  script/plugin install git://github.com/Narnach/file_wrapper.git

Installation as gem

Install the gem by executing:

  sudo gem install Narnach-file_wrapper --remote --source http://gems.github.com

Example

Detect the mime-type of a file.

  FileWrapper.get_mime('Rakefile') #=> 'text/plain'

http://github.com/Narnach/file_wrapper/tree/master