From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-09-16T16:08:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32418] Re: [Ruby 1.8.7-RubySpec#3837][Open] Pathname#relative_path_from raises exception on Windows if path case different


On Sep 15, 2010, at 23:29 , red stun wrote:

> RubySpec #3837: Pathname#relative_path_from raises exception on Windows if path case different
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3837
> 
> Author: red stun
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> 
> I'm using ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32], the following code always raises exception
> 
> require 'pathname'
> 
> puts RUBY_VERSION
> puts RUBY_PLATFORM
> 
> p = Pathname.new("c:\\")
> q = Pathname.new("C:\\")
> puts q.relative_path_from(p)
> puts p.relative_path_from(q)
> 
> ruby-1.8.7/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:726:in `relative_path_from': different prefix: "C:\\" and "c:\\" (ArgumentError)

I vaguely remember this coming up before. I think it is a dupe.