From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T13:17:14+09:00
Subject: Re: checking for directory (noob mistake?)

On Jul 23, 2006, at 11:55 PM, bilal33@gmail.com wrote:

> Dir.foreach("c:/") do |temp|
> p "#{temp} #{File.expand_path temp}"
> p File.directory? "#{File.expand_path temp}"
> end
>
> basically, I need to detect which items under my C drive (or any other
> folder for that matter) are directories. With the code above, I can't
> seem to get this to work. I added the expand path call so that I know
> that I am getting the folders correctly.
>
> Am I missing something really obvious here? Why can't I differentiate
> between a file and a directory?

Dir::entries (which Dir::foreach uses) just returns a list of files/ 
directories in the specified path, it does not return the path to  
them. You want Dir::glob:

Dir.glob("/*") do |dir|
   puts "#{dir}: directory? #{File.directory?(dir)}"
end

-- Daniel