From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T20:03:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using ruby 1.8.2 on Windows XP, the path separator used for things
> like File.join is always / instead of \.  Is there a way to force
> ruby to use the correct path separator?

AFAIK Ruby can usually use both, so 'C:\\foo\\bar' and 'C:/foo/bar' are 
equivalent. Btw, which Ruby version are you using?  If it's the cygwin 
version then slash definitively works,

Kind regards

    robert