[ruby-core:67796] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7361] Adding Pathname#touch

Issue #7361 has been updated by Daniel Berger.


I'm a little surprise there isn't an option for this in FileUtils. Something like FileUtils.touch('/location/for/new', :force => true). I'd be in favor of adding that, or an option to FileUtils.mkpath.

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Feature #7361: Adding Pathname#touch
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7361#change-51207

* Author: Alexander E. Fischer
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Akira Tanaka
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Pathname has an #mkdir method to create a directory at the path, but does not have a #touch method to create an empty file at that path.

There were numerous cases where I had to fallback to using

new_file = Pathname.new('location/for/new/file')
FileUtils.touch(new_file)

instead of simply being able to use:

new_file.touch

I would like to add this method. If you like it, let me know. I will provide a patch then.



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