Peter,
Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 2:37:35 AM, you wrote:
PH> Well the File lass has a size method and you can open files and read
PH> them with sysread which is available in the IO class (which you get
PH> when you open a file)
PH> Also this has nothing to do with RoR
At least on my machine
C:\Users\Ralph>irb
irb(main):001:0>
File.size('c:/RailsInstaller/Sites/ultradedup002/app/views/usage/VideoTutorials.html.haml')
=> 32406
irb(main):002:0>
File.size('http://www.ultradedup.com/videolib/One-minute-commercial-027.flv')
Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument -
http://www.ultradedup.com/videolib/One-minute-commercial-027.flv
from (irb):2:in `size'
from (irb):2
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
irb(main):003:0>
So File.size() seems to work on local files and not web-based files.
I'll take this to the ruby chat list.
Ralph Shnelvar
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