From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-12-31T03:01:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Restricting file access in Ruby

Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> John Allen wrote:
> 
>> Hey, I don't know if this is a subject that's been beat to death or 
>> not as
>> I'm new to the group, but I wanted to ask whether anyone's extended 
>> Ruby to
>> allow scripts to (dis)allow access to files based on some sort of user
>> defined mechanism.
> 
> 
> This is what users and permissions on OS level are good for; I think it 
> will be _very_ hard to implement it in ruby.

I concur with Andreas, this isn't necessarily the job for ruby to be 
doing, nor your scripts. It adds unnecessarily complexities to a problem 
ruby shouldn't be solving anyways. Let your OS do this. It will save you 
from headache.

Zach