How to read a file?

[dakshayini]

hi all,

I will browse the file and read the name of file in my web page.similarly i need to read the contents of that browsed file into my web page.Is it possible to read and write the contents of browsed file into my web page.please if anyone know about it.help me out.

[acoder]

For file upload, see this or this.

If you want to read/write files in Ruby, see this tutorial.

[improvcornartist]

What do you have so far? Using the file upload, you will be able to browse to a file, read it's filename, and read it's contents. Then you can output the file contents in your page.