Skip to content

End of Life Ruby 3.0 has reached end of life and gets no more fixes. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →

instance method

Pathname#read

pathname.read([length [, offset]]) → string
pathname.read([length [, offset]], open_args) → string

Returns all data from the file, or the first N bytes if specified.

See File.read.

See also #pipe? #readable? #parent #readable_real? also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1