Uri to absolute/relative path

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Hello, I'm new to ruby but so far my experience with Ruby has been
great. I'm unable to open an uri based on the file path.

This works
require 'open-uri'
open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") {|f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line}
  }

but this doesn't

require 'open-uri'
open("file:c://test/test.txt") {|f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line}
  }

Can Ruby uri class open up a file schema?

Thanks,
apparna

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App Ra wrote:

Hello, I'm new to ruby but so far my experience with Ruby has been
great. I'm unable to open an uri based on the file path.

This works
require 'open-uri'
open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/"\) {|f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line}
  }

but this doesn't

require 'open-uri'
open("file:c://test/test.txt") {|f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line}
  }

Can Ruby uri class open up a file schema?

Make a test without a drive letter. IOW try a simpler case first. Then, if
this succeeds, try this syntax:

"file:///C:/test/test.txt"

URI paths involving drive letters must be handled very carefully. And IMHO,
drive letters should be banished from the world of computing as soon as
possible.

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