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hi!
Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
didnt find anything via google or in the docs
thanks!
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On Dec 18, 10:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi!
> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
> didnt find anything via google or in the docs
> thanks!

What did you Google for, and where did you search in the docs?

On Dec 18, 12:15 pm, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi!
> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
> didnt find anything via google or in the docs

File#exists? works for directories as well as files. You could then
use File#directory? to verify that the item is a directory, if it
exists.

here are two ways:

File.directory? path

test ?d, path
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On Dec 18 2007, 9:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi!
> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
> didnt find anything via google or in the docs
> thanks!
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if Dir["C:/ruby"] != nil
puts 'Yeehoooo !'
else
puts 'no such directory'
end

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

File.directory? 'some/dir'



On Jan 25, 2008 8:59 PM, anti <> wrote:

> On Dec 18 2007, 9:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi!
> > Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
> > didnt find anything via google or in the docs
> > thanks!
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> if Dir["C:/ruby"] != nil
> puts 'Yeehoooo !'
> else
> puts 'no such directory'
> end
>
>

anti wrote:
> On Dec 18 2007, 9:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi!
>> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
>> didnt find anything via google or in the docs
>> thanks!
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>> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>
> if Dir["C:/ruby"] != nil
> puts 'Yeehoooo !'
> else
> puts 'no such directory'
> end
>
>
>
Yep. And the long version would be

path="/some/path"
if File.exists?(path) && File.directory?(path)
puts "yeeha"
else
puts "bummer"
end


V.-

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Gavin Kistner wrote:
> On Dec 18, 10:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi!
>> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
>> didnt find anything via google or in the docs
>> thanks!
>
> What did you Google for, and where did you search in the docs?

Its a shame people had to post solutions afterwards. That would of been
interesting.
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Lee Jarvis wrote:
> Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> On Dec 18, 10:15 am, Florian Schaf <flo.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hi!
>>> Can anyone tell me how I can check whether a directory exists or not? I
>>> didnt find anything via google or in the docs
>>> thanks!
>>
>> What did you Google for, and where did you search in the docs?
>
> Its a shame people had to post solutions afterwards. That would of been
> interesting.

Well im glad they posted solutions, for I googled "ruby directory
exists" and got the answer from here.
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Lee Jarvis wrote:
>
> Its a shame people had to post solutions afterwards. That would of been
> interesting.
>

This is why the Ruby and RoR community sucks.

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