Well, the binread works fine for me. I tried to create a file from the
encoded data and that looks fine, so the problem is something else.

I wonder if # encoding: utf-8 first in the file can mess things up.



On 10 Nov, 18:45, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2:23 pm, jeb <jo...@ibiz.se> wrote:
>
> > That worked well in 1.8.7, but not in 1.9.2.
>
> Dunno what are you doing, but works fine for me:
>
> C:\Users\Luis>ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]
>
> C:\Users\Luis>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require "base64"
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> content = File.binread(".TransferManager.db"); nil
> => nil
> irb(main):003:0> content.length
> => 15388
> irb(main):004:0> encoded = Base64.encode64(content); nil
> => nil
> irb(main):005:0> encoded.length
> => 20862
>
> The 'nil' at the end is to avoid the entire binary file output in this
> example.
>
> PS: there is no "File.binread" in Ruby 1.8.7, so dunno how that
> worked.
>
> --
> Luis Lavena

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