From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T06:48:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29828] Re: [Bug #3185] File.expand_path repeats forward slashes at the beginning of the path


On Apr 26, 2010, at 21:22 , Brian Ford wrote:

> Issue #3185 has been updated by Brian Ford.
> 
> 
> Could we please get clarification on when it is required and on what platforms? Just allowing an unlimited number of forward slashes seems unreasonable.

Seems reasonable to me and allows for things like this to be clean and easy:

>> URI.parse "file:" + File.expand_path('//path/to/../file.txt')
=> #<URI::Generic:0x100620d08 URL:file://path/file.txt>