From: Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T06:25:49+09:00
Subject: Re: All I want to do is move a directory :(

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> Very frustrated. I have just spent well over an hour trying to do the simplest 
> of all things: move a directory. Of course, I want to do it in Ruby but this 
> doesn't work:
> 
>   FileUtils.mv( @dir, ".trash/" )
> 
> Could someone please show me why am I apparently so stupid.
> 
> Thanks,
> T.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

What excactly are you experiencing? On what platform? On my Linux box 
with Ruby 1.6.8 when I do

$ mkdir aaa
$ mkdir .trash

$ irb -r fileutils
irb(main):001:0> FileUtils.mv "aaa", ".trash/"

it works just fine. The only thing is that if ".trash/aaa" already 
exists, I get an exception:

Errno::EISDIR: Is a directory - ".trash/aaa"
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:396:in `open'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:396:in 
`copy_file'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:395:in `open'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:395:in 
`copy_file'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:445:in `mv'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:432:in 
`fu_each_src_dest'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/fileutils.rb:432:in `mv'
         from (irb):1


Gennady.