ariejan / 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

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

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

Get the code

http://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

Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Ariejan de Vroom.