Detect MIME type of uploaded file in Ruby

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The ruby-filemagic gem will do it:

require 'filemagic'

puts FileMagic.new(FileMagic::MAGIC_MIME).file(__FILE__)
# => text/x-ruby; charset=us-ascii

This gem does not look at the file extension at all. It reads a bit of the file contents and uses that to guess the file’s type.

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