From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-23T23:53:43+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent way to read/write paths?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wells [mailto:lists@sourceillustrated.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 6:11 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: OS independent way to read/write paths?
> 
> 
> Guys,
> 
> I'm running into some problems running scripts on Windows 
> that do file path mangling.  Problem is that it appears Ruby 
> converts all windows paths to forward slashes as opposed to 
> back slashes...fine by me, but I need to write them out on 
> occasion for consumption by other Windows programs or batch 
> files, and then I have a problem.
> 
> I know this would be a relatively simple thing to handle on 
> my own, but wanted to know if, by my newness to Ruby, I'm 
> missing a wheel that's already been invented.  What's the 
> idiomatic way of handling this sort of problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> John

See pathname2, available on the RAA.  It will preserve your slashes as
is.  It is also much better suited for Windows.

Regards,

Dan