From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-09T08:19:34-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01791] Re: size of Dir stream

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.misc as well.

"J.B. Huijsmans" <j.b.huijsmans@chem.rug.nl> writes:

> I've been trying to make a procedure to remove a directory tree. I found
> that if I use :
> 
> files=Dir.open(path)
> if files.size<=2 # only `.' and '..'
>     files.close()
>     Dir.delete(path)
> else
>     ...
> end

The class method Dir.open returns a Dir object, which (unless things
have changed in 1.5) does not respond to 'size'.  Possibly you wanted
to use Dir.entries, which returns an array of file names.


Regards


Dave