[ruby-core:76451] [Ruby trunk Feature#7361] Adding Pathname#touch

Issue #7361 has been updated by Naja Melan.


I prefer something like (warning, untested code):

~~~ ruby


def touch( subPath = '', **options )

	path = @path
	ret  = self

	if directory?

		ret  = join subPath
		path = ret.to_path

	end

	FileUtils.touch( path, **options )

	ret

end
~~~

lets you do:

~~~ ruby
mydir.touch 'somefile'
~~~

I think touch is a good name because everybody already knows it and it's what people will try out spontaneously before even looking in the docs why it doesn't work. Joel Spolsky [explains quite well](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html) why this is a good thing.

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Feature #7361: Adding Pathname#touch
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7361#change-59696

* Author: Alexander E. Fischer
* Status: Rejected
* 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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