[Capistrano] Re: "get" to a buffer?

[Jamis Buck]

You can do:

  buffer = capture("cat /my/file")



- Jamis

On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:54 PM, David Masover wrote:

It won't work well if /my/file contains binary data, but for text it should work well enough.

Right now, we "put" files only from buffers, but we "get" files only to local files.

run 'cat /my/file' do ...

or:

get '/my/file', '/tmp/something_random'
# and then open it, delete it, etc.



buffer = get '/my/file'

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I kind of feel like "put" and "get" should be symmetric, but also, I would like to be able to work with files or buffers as I choose. Right now, I'm needing to read a remote file, just to pull one value out of it. I don't really see a good way to do this; it looks as though I can either do: I'm writing on the off chance that someone's already solved this. Basically looking for something like

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