From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T03:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic ruby version of this code?

Daniel Berger wrote:
> gsub and backreferences?  Why take that approach when File.basename is 
> available?
>
> def switch(old, new)
>    Dir["*.#{old}"].each{ |file|
>       new_name = File.basename(file, old) + "." + new
>       File.rename(file, new_name)
>    }
> end
You understand he's trying to swap extensions, right?  (I think?)  Well, 
you've got to get the extension name.  And File.extname( file )[1..-1] 
is ugly.

I always go for short and dirty.  I steal second base!

_why