class FileHandler

Handles the Reading and writing of files

Public Instance Methods

content(plmat) click to toggle source

Retrieves the content as text of a file

Arguments:

* plmat (File) - a .plmat file in .plmat markdown

Return:

* (String) - contents of .plmat file

# File lib/placemat.rb, line 16
def content(plmat)
  file = File.open(plmat, "rb")
  file.read
end

output(contents, filename = "output.html") click to toggle source

Creates or overwrites text to a new file

Arguments:

* contents (String) - string of text to write to file
* filename (String) - name for new file, defaults to output.html if not specified

# File lib/placemat.rb, line 27
def output(contents, filename = "output.html")
  out_file = File.new(filename, "w")
  out_file.puts(contents)
  out_file.close
end