[ruby-core:74477] [Ruby trunk Feature#12194] File.dirname optional parameter

Issue #12194 has been updated by Robert A. Heiler.


I myself have found Pathname harder or less elegant to use than the direct File* or Dir* methods so I am in support of the suggestion by nobu.

So to Benoit, I understand that you may consider File.dirname(path, 2) not ideal either (a user may wonder what the 2 means), the alternative
suggestion to use Pathname is not ideal either and additionally requires pathname call:

    require 'pathname'
    # require 'fileutils'; FileUtils.mkdir_p('/tmp/foobar/') # <-- this line just for testing purpose, disregard it
    Pathname("/tmp/foobar/").parent.parent.to_s # => "/"

Being able to directly do so on File.dirname() itself is good, in my opinion.

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Feature #12194: File.dirname optional parameter
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12194#change-57596

* Author: Nobuyoshi Nakada
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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As talked at the last developers' meeting, I propose an addition of an optional parameter to `File.dirname`.

Often I see the code, like

```ruby
File.dirname(File.dirname(path)) # or
File.expand_path("../..", path)
```
which are not concise.

This proposal can make them as:

```ruby
File.dirname(path, 2)
```

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/compare/trunk...nobu:feature/dirname-level?expand=1



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