Filetype
Find a file type according to a filename or extension
Installation
Rubygems
gem install filetype
GitHub
git clone git://github.com/injekt/filetype.git
gem build filetype.gemspec
gem install filetype-<version>.gem
Usage
Filetype.get('foo.rb') #=> :ruby
Filetype.all('foo.h') #=> [:c, :cpp, :objc]
Custom file types
You can of course add your own custom file types
Filetype.add(:cool, %w[ cool kl ])
Filetype.get('hello.kl') #=> :cool
Simple
You may notice how basic Filetype is, all it's doing is checking the file name or file extension. Well, that's its intention, it was built for nothing more. If you want more advanced information, check out the mime-types library.
Contributing
The list of file types Filetype supports can be found here. This list is of course fairly short. Please feel free to add file types!