module MIME::Types

Overview

MIME::Types is a registry of MIME types. It is both a class (created with MIME::Types.new) and a default registry (loaded automatically or through interactions with MIME::Types.[]``,MIME::Types.for_filename,MIME::Types.for_extension`).

The Default mime-types Registry

The default mime-types registry is loaded automatically when the library is required (require "mime/types").

Usage

require "mime/types"

plaintext = MIME::Types["text/plain"]
print plaintext.media_type # => "text'
print plaintext.sub_type   # => "plain"

puts plaintext.extensions.join(" ") # => "asc txt c cc h hh cpp"

puts plaintext.encoding                    # => 8bit
puts plaintext.binary?                     # => false
puts plaintext.ascii?                      # => true
puts plaintext.obsolete?                   # => false
puts plaintext.registered?                 # => true
puts plaintext == "text/plain"             # => true
puts MIME::Type.simplified("x-appl/x-zip") # => "appl/zip"

Extended Modules

• MIME::Types

Defined in:

Class Method Summary

• .[](content_type : String, complete = false, registered = false)

  Returns a list of MIME::Type objects, which may be empty.

• .[](content_type : Regex, complete = false, registered = false)
• .inspect(io)
• .register(*args)

  Registers a new MIME::Type, delegating to MIME::Type.new

• .registry

  Returns a list of all registered MIME::Types

• .to_s(io)

Instance Method Summary

• #for_extension(ext : String)

  Returns the type for a extension string

• #type_for(file : File)

  Returns the type for a File

• #type_for(filename : String)

  Returns the type for a filename string

• #type_for(request : HTTP::Request)

  Returns the types for an HTTP::Request Content-Type header.

• #type_for(response : HTTP::Client::Response)

  Returns the types for an HTTP::Client::Response Content-Type header.

• #type_for_accept(request : HTTP::Request)

  Returns the types for an HTTP::Request Accept header.

Class Method Detail

MIME::Types["text/plain"].each { |t| puts t.to_a.join(", ") }

MIME::Types[/^image/, :complete => true].each do |t|
  puts t.to_a.join(", ")
end

Instance Method Detail