About mime/types

This is a discussion on About mime/types within the RUBY forums in Programming Languages category; Why does this MIME::Types['text/plain'] give 'text/plaintext/plain'? The thing is I'm trying to understand how to use mime/types http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/classes/MIME/Types.html and I can't mimic this example: plaintext = MIME::Types['text/plain'] print plaintext.media_type # => 'text' print plaintext.sub_type # => 'plain' It doesn't work unless I do MIME::Types['text/plain'].first. Why? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/ ....