MIME::Types for Ruby allows for the identification of a file’s likely MIME content type based on the file’s filename extension, or provides a list of extensions associated with a MIME content type, if known.

• http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/
• http://rubyforge.org/projects/mime-types
• http://github.com/halostatue/mime-types/tree/master

MIME::Types for Ruby originally based on and synchronized with the Perl version by Mark Overmeer, copyright 2001 – 2009. As of version 1.15, the data format for the MIME::Type list has changed and synchronization, if it happens, will be sporadic at best. The preferred source of input for a MIME::Type is the IANA registered list.

Copyright: 2002 – 2009, Austin Ziegler; based on prior work copyright Mark Overmeer.

Licence Notes

MIME::Types is available under Ruby’s disjunctive licence with the GNU GPL or the Perl Artistic licence. See the file Licence.txt in the package for full details.

Requirements and Installation

MIME::Types has been tested with Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1, JRuby 1.1.6 (in Ruby 1.8 mode), and MacRuby 0.3.

MIME::Types can be installed with:

% ruby setup.rb

Alternatively, you can use the RubyGems version of MIME::Types available as mime-types-1.16.gem from the usual sources.

MIME::Types 1.16

• Made compatible with Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7, and 1.9.1.
• Switched to the ‘hoe’ gem system and added a lot of build-time tools.
• Updated the MIME types to the list based on the values in the Perl library version 1.27. Also updated based on external source information and bug reports.
• This is the last planned version of MIME::Types 1.x. Work will be starting soon on MIME::Types 2.x with richer data querying mechanisms and support for external data sources.