Is it possible to read a file's modification date with Ruby?

Question

Is it possible to read a file's modification date with Ruby? I have successfully opened a text file and captured the contents of the file with

File.open("test.txt", "r").each do |line|"

but it would be very useful to read the modification date of the file.

score 104 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 20 '14 at 16:21

104

File.mtime("testfile")
=> 2014-04-13 16:00:23 -0300

edited Apr 20 '14 at 16:21

Cristian Ciupitu

answered May 14 '12 at 09:39

Constantine M

score 27 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '12 at 09:35

27

"Returns the modification time for the named file as a Time object."

File.mtime("testfile")   #=> Tue Apr 08 12:58:04 CDT 2003

answered May 14 '12 at 09:35

Matzi

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