From: "baumanj@..." <baumanj@...>
Date: 2006-04-03T00:28:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Examine Folder Contents?

This is operating on the actual filesystem, so you have to use real
paths, not the URI for the web application. Try this:

File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'public')

@images = Dir.glob(File.join(RAILS_ROOT,
'public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/'), '*.jpg')

Joshua Muheim wrote:
> > You'll want the class Dir, and the class method glob.
> > png_files = Dir.glob(File.join(path_of_folder, '*.png'))
> >
> > Cheers,
> > 	Benj
>
> Thank you so far. I'm using this in Ruby on Rails and tried the
> following:
>
> @images = Dir.glob('/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/',
> '*.jpg')
>
> Sadly this delivers me an empty array, but there are about 20 jpg files
> in this folder... :-/
>
> Thanks for help... Josh
> 
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