[ruby-core:97451] [Ruby master Feature#16688] Allow #to_path object as argument to system()

Issue #16688 has been updated by zverok (Victor Shepelev).


I always wondered, why `Pathname` doesn't define `to_str`?.. It seems to be a perfectly suitable option: implicit conversion for "specialized" variety of the `String`, and it will make _all_ non-Pathname-aware code work as expected... What are the downsides?

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Feature #16688: Allow #to_path object as argument to system()
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16688#change-84595

* Author: Dan0042 (Daniel DeLorme)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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I often work with Pathname objects, but when passing them to a system command I find it a bit tedious that they have to be explicitly converted to a String.

```ruby
file = BASE + "config.json"
system(@cmd, file)      #=> TypeError (no implicit conversion of Pathname into String)
system(@cmd, file.to_s) #=> works
```

I propose that the system/exec/spawn family of methods should try to convert their arguments using `to_path`, if `to_str` fails. I believe it makes perfect sense, since commandline arguments are so often pathnames.



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