From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T01:23:02+09:00
Subject: Re: File.open and File.new problem for a newbie

On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Jean-Francois Boisvieux wrote:

> I'm pretty new to ruby and I've written some code to parse apache  
> logs, it works but now I want to store the result in a file. The  
> problem is as follow (using irb)
>
> irb(main):001:0> foo = File.open("test")
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - test
>         from (irb):1:in `initialize'
>         from (irb):1:in `open'
>         from (irb):1
>
> I just do not understand the problem ( I can create a file with  
> python in the same directory ), what's wrong for me ?

You must open the file for writing:

open("test", "w") do |file|
   # ...
end # -> File is automatically closed here, even if an exception is  
thrown.

-- Daniel