From: akr@... Date: 2016-04-13T06:50:10+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:74922] [Ruby trunk Feature#7361][Rejected] Adding Pathname#touch Issue #7361 has been updated by Akira Tanaka. Status changed from Assigned to Rejected I don't like the method name "touch". "touch" command has multiple features: create empty file, update mtime. So, the intent of touch method is ambiguous. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7361: Adding Pathname#touch https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7361#change-58051 * Author: Alexander E. Fischer * Status: Rejected * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Akira Tanaka ---------------------------------------- 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. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: