From: zdennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2006-01-19T19:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to write to file... (example from "pickaxe book", second edition, p128)

John Maclean wrote:
> Following the example from "pickaxe book", second edition, p128
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby 
> File.open("testfile", "r") do |file|
>   while line = file.gets
>     puts line
>   end
> end
> 
> produces
> copy.rb:2:in `initialize': No such file or directory - testfile (Errno::ENOENT)
>         from copy.rb:2
> 

John, you need the file named "testfile" to exist before you can run that code. It can't open a file 
if it doesn't exist!

Zach