From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T06:36:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23678] Re: feature request: Directory.dir?

Roger Pack wrote:
>>> For some reason it seems odd to have to do File.dir?
>>> however, having that and Directory.dir? would be quite nice and make sense.
>> Dir.exist?
> 
> Hmm.  Somehow Dir.exist? doesn't seem quite as...how to describe
> it...fitting as Dir.dir?
> -=r

Aw, heck, why not

def Dir?(f); File.directory?(f); end
Dir?("/tmp") # => true

and while we're at it:

require 'fileutils'
def Dir!(f); FileUtils.makedirs(f); end
Dir?('/tmp/foo/bar') # => false
Dir!('/tmp/foo/bar') # => "/tmp/foo/bar"
Dir?('/tmp/foo/bar') # => true

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