Ruby find string in file and print result

Question

It\'s been a very long time since I\'ve used ruby for things like this but, I forget how to open a file, look for a string, and print what ruby finds. Here is what I have:

Answer 1

The simplest way to get the root is to do:

rake routes | grep root

If you want to do it in Ruby, I would go with:

File.open("config/routes.rb") do |f|
  f.each_line do |line|
    if line =~ /root/
      puts "Found root: #{line}"
    end
  end
end