From: "Barnett, Aaron" <aaron.barnett@...>
Date: 2001-08-30T23:36:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20581] RE:  Relative path


i havnt impressed myself with the elegance of this solution, but it works.

def rel_path(a, b)
    new_path = ''

    a = a.split('/')
    b = b.split('/')

    raise "windows sucks" if a[0] =~ /^\w\:$/ and a[0] != b[0]

    while a[0] == b[0]
        a.shift
        b.shift
    end

    a.size.times { new_path += '../' }
    b.each { |dir| new_path += dir + '/' }

    new_path
end


-----Original Message-----
From: Gardian, Milan [mailto:Milan.Gardian@LEIBINGER.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:41 AM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ruby-talk:20580] Relative path


Hello,

what is the shortest & quickest way of finding a relative path between path1
and path2 in Ruby? (either universal or Win32 platform-specific)...

E.g.:
-----
path1 = "c:/temp/foo"
path2 = "c:/temp/foo/dir/another_dir"
path3 = "c:/special_dir"
path4 = "d:/dir"

rel_path(path1, path2) -> "dir/another_dir"

rel_path(path2, path1) -> "../.."

rel_path(path2, path3) -> "../../../special_dir"

rel_path(path1, path4) -> Exception - not possible
-----

Thank you for your help!

Cheers,

	Milan