# Help recherche de package

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 11, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019 "2006-12-11T17:11:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dom)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/1 "2006-12-11T17:11:52Z")

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Bonjour  
Je suis débutant en ruby et je recherche une bibliotheque pour lire  
les métadonnée d’un fichier (auteur taille type de document …)  
et une autre bibliothèque pour pouvoir uploader et downloader des  
documents  
Merci d’avance

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**Author:** ![dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dom)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/2 "2006-12-11T17:35:54Z")

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Bonjour,  
La plupart d’entre nous ne parle pas français, ainsi si vous pourriez  
signaler votre question encore en anglais, qui serait très utile. (je  
ne parle pas français, ainsi je suis désolé si c’est très rugueux)

Jeremy

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**Author:** ![dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dom)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/3 "2006-12-11T17:45:55Z")

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I’m beginner in Ruby and I want to know if there are librairy for  
having meta data and for uploading and downloading files.  
Thank you

Jeremy McAnally a écrit :

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**Author:** ![dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dom)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/4 "2006-12-11T17:51:57Z")

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Dom wrote:

> I’m beginner in Ruby and I want to know if there are librairy for  
> having meta data and for uploading and downloading files.

Can you be more specific? What kind of meta-data? How do you mean  
“uploading  
and downloading files”?

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**Author:** ![dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@dom](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dom)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/5 "2006-12-11T17:57:59Z")

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I have the solution for uploading but not for having the metadata. The  
metadata are file of musik video file image file, in a first time and  
in a second time for word file excel file pdf file  
Thank you  
Paul L. a écrit :

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/6 "2006-12-11T19:17:21Z")

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Dom wrote:

> I have the solution for uploading but not for having the metadata. The  
> metadata are file of musik video file image file, in a first time and  
> in a second time for word file excel file pdf file

Are the meta-data located inside the file, or outside the file? Does  
“meta-data” mean the file’s size, modification time, etc.?

What sort of connection exists between the desired file and the client?  
If  
it is a network connection, have you considered using SSH to gather the  
required information?

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/7 "2006-12-12T09:25:34Z")

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Are the meta-data located inside the file, or outside the file? Does  
“meta-data” mean the file’s size, modification time, etc.?

YES

What sort of connection exists between the desired file and the client?  
If  
it is a network connection, have you considered using SSH to gather the  
required information?  
I’m student and it’s for a TP and it’s just in localhost

Paul L. a écrit :

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-recherche-de-package/79019/8 "2006-12-11T17:55:58Z")

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On 12/11/06, Dom [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m beginner in Ruby and I want to know if there are librairy for  
> having meta data and for uploading and downloading files.

You can use File.stat (available in the core of ruby) to read the meta  
data of a file.

For uploading and downloading file we can use Net::FTP available in  
the standard library.

See: [RDoc Documentation](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/)

Cheers,