# Copying the file in local hard drive to the text field in th **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 15, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/copying-the-file-in-local-hard-drive-to-the-text-field-in-th/72192 "2006-10-15T10:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/copying-the-file-in-local-hard-drive-to-the-text-field-in-th/72192/1 "2006-10-15T10:15:45Z")
In my previous inquiry, I have received the below suggestion; I was inquiring how I can copy a file in my hard drive to the text field in the web. Yes, below code works!!! but each file I need to upload is quite lengthy, and I have many hundreds of them. When I run the code below, WATIR is reading the file in my hard drive a character by character into the text field in the web; it simply takes too long. Is there anyway I can copy the file in my hard drive in its entirety all at once, and paste it to the text field in the web at once?? That way I do not have to wait till the code reads a character by character… and the job will be done much faster… any suggestion or help will be deeply appreciated. thanks. # m. Well, what you’re doing is just taking the contents of the variable $Path and setting it to the text field. You’ll actually need to open and read the file. For example… ie.text\_field(:name, “html\_text”).set(File.new($Path).read) That should do it. M.T. ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@michael](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/copying-the-file-in-local-hard-drive-to-the-text-field-in-th/72192/2 "2006-10-15T12:05:55Z")
ie.text\_field(:name, “html\_text”).value = File.new($Path).read