How to write to file in Ruby?

Question

I need to read the data out of database and then save it in a text file.

How can I do that in Ruby? Is there any file management system in Ruby?

Answer 1

Are you looking for the following?

File.open(yourfile, 'w') { |file| file.write("your text") } 

Answer 2

You can use the short version:

File.write('/path/to/file', 'Some glorious content') 

It returns the length written; see ::write for more details and options.

To append to the file, if it already exists, use:

File.write('/path/to/file', 'Some glorious content', mode: 'a')