Mimer

Mimer tries to find a file’s mime-type by using unix’ ‘file` command. File extensions are never used to identify a file.

Mimer has been tested to work on Debian 5.0 and Mac OS X 10.5+. This gem is useless on Windows.

Install

gem install mimer_plus

You may need to install the gemcutter gem first.

Usage

It’s quite easy:

$ mimer = Mimer.identify('/tmp/testfile')

$ mimer.mime_type
=> "image/jpeg; charset=binary"

$ mimer.text?
=> false

$ mimer.image?
=> true

$ mimer.some_strange_type?
=> false

Get the code

github.com/ariejan/mimer

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.

  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.

  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but

    bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2009 Ariejan de Vroom, Kabisa ICT. See LICENSE for details.