From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T18:26:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [rake] excluding dirs with FileList

On Monday 01 August 2005 05:39, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> > How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a
> > particular directory, but _any_ directory?
> >
> > I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #===
> > method returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But
> > #exclude tries to turn its argument into a string and build up a
> > regex.
> >
> > --
> >       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
>    require 'find'
>
>    file_list = []
>    start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
> from.
>
>    Find.find(start_path) do |file|
>        file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
>    end
>
>    p file_list
>
>      This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do.

Sorry if this sounds like bad advertisement, but with Rant
the same looks like:

  file_list = sys["/path/to/directory/**/*"].no_dir

Perhaps someone wants to integrate it into Rake.

HTH,
  Stefan