Read contents of a local file into a variable in Rails

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All I want to do is get all the content from a local file and store it in a variable  How   File read  icon full filename  each   l  r    l   only gives me a part of it  In PHP  I just used file get contents

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data   File read   path to file

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Answering my own question here    turns out it s a Windows only quirk that happens when reading binary files  in my case a JPEG  that requires an additional flag in the open or File open function call  I revised it to open   path to file    rb     io  a   a   io read  and all was fine

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I think you should consider using IO binread   path to file   if you have a recent ruby interpreter  i e     1 9 2   You could find IO class documentation here http   www ruby-doc org core-2 1 2 IO html

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