From: "C.E. Thornton" <admin@...>
Date: 2008-07-19T01:36:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17834] Tested expand_path failure with 1.8.7 --- Same Results

Core,

Expand_path() also fails with the latest 1.8.7.

How do I download the latest 1.8 and 1.9 branches
to do further tests!

The results:
The Program
===========
#!/usr/bin/ruby
#
a = Dir.entries(Dir.getwd)
#
a.each do |x|
  if File.stat(x).ftype.include?("directory")
    if ARGV[0] =~ /^w/
      f = File.expand_path(File.dirname(x))   # Necessary because of 
expand_path failure!!
      f += ('/' + x)                          # Because of filenames of 
form '~name'
    else
      f = File.expand_path(x)
    end
    puts "Dir = #{f}"
  end
end
hydra(Wpad02}$x tst.rb

TEST 1 - Failure
=============================
hydra(Wpad02}$tst.rb
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
./tst.rb:11:in `expand_path': user test doesn't exist (ArgumentError)
        from ./tst.rb:11
        from ./tst.rb:5:in `each'
        from ./tst.rb:5

TEST 2 - Success
=============================
hydra(Wpad02}$tst.rb w
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/~test
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/t~st
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/..
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/ATTIC
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/test
Dir = /home/thornton/WorkPads/Wpad02/.

Contents of Test Dir
================
hydra(Wpad02}$ls
ATTIC  test  ~test  t~st  tst.rb 

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