Read binary file as string in Ruby
First, you should open the file as a binary file. Then you can read the entire file in, in one command.
file = File.open("path-to-file.tar.gz", "rb")contents = file.read
That will get you the entire file in a string.
After that, you probably want to file.close
. If you don’t do that, file
won’t be closed until it is garbage-collected, so it would be a slight waste of system resources while it is open.