Determine file type in Ruby

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There is a ruby binding to libmagic that does what you need. It is available as a gem named ruby-filemagic:

gem install ruby-filemagic

Require libmagic-dev.

The documentation seems a little thin, but this should get you started:

$ irb 
irb(main):001:0> require 'filemagic' 
=> true
irb(main):002:0> fm = FileMagic.new
=> #<FileMagic:0x7fd4afb0>
irb(main):003:0> fm.file('foo.zip') 
=> "Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract"
irb(main):004:0>

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