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Library to guess the MIME type of a file with both filename lookup and magic file detection

= shared-mime-info

shared-mime-info is a pure Ruby library for accessing the MIME info database provided by Freedesktop[http://freedesktop.org/] on {Standards/shared-mime-info-spec}[http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec].

= Project

The rubyforge project : http://rubyforge.org/projects/shared-mime

The github repository: http://github.com/hanklords/shared-mime-info/tree/master

= Usage

require 'shared-mime-info'

MIME.check 'sample.jpg' # => #<MIME::Type ..., @type="image/jpeg">

MIME['image/jpeg'].match_filename? 'sample.jpg' # => true