From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-07-30T15:31:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Create a New File

This is just golfing, and I should be ashamed of myself, but  
something like ...

    `>~/new_file.txt`

... will do it on most Unix systems (including Mac OS X).

Regards, Morton

On Jul 30, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Skeets wrote:

> let's say I want to create a new file named new_file.txt.  how do i do
> this in ruby?  it would seem to be trivial, however, i'm going through
> the pickaxe book and i can't find anything that relates to this.