Adding mime_type method

[stephan-nordnes-eriksen]

Adds a simple way to get the mime type of an object. I feel this particular feature is an important one, but is missing.

[halostatue]

This already exists in two separate methods (that provide slightly different things): #content_type (returning the raw content type) and #simplified (returning the nearest “true” MIME type):

q = MIME::Type.new('text/x-plain')
q.content_type # => 'text/x-plain'
q.simplified # => 'text/plain'

The #to_s method also returns the #content_type. Your version is essentially the same things as #simplified (whereas #content_type would be using #raw_media_type and #raw_sub_type). I don’t think that I’d want a patch for a method #mime_type that returns the same as #simplified—because it isn’t clear whether you would want the original type or the simplified type, but I would happily accept a patch or issue that suggests a place that I can clean up the documentation around these methods.

What’s the context you wanted to use this in, such that #content_type and #simplified weren’t what you found?

[stephan-nordnes-eriksen]

Alright, I see. I do agree the method name "mime_type" can be a bit confusing. Well, at least I think something should be done to the docs, because I was unable to figure out how to get a simple string representation of the mime type by glancing at the readme.