From: Graham Wideman <notarealaddress@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T11:05:26+09:00
Subject: Windows/X-plaiform file path manipulation -- how do you deal with it?

Folks:

Could someone please straighten me out on how the Ruby community deals with 
the simple issues of file names and path manipulation on Windows, preferably 
in a cross platform way?

So far as I can tell, pathname.rb as distributed with 1.8.4 does not deal 
with Windows paths.

(Comments within say it's unix-only, though the online docs at 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ claim Windows support, but appear to be 
extracted from wrong version of pathname.rb).

On the basis that there are many ruby programmers working on Windows and 
presumably needing to actually work with files, I'm hesitant to conclude 
that this area of functionality isn't covered somehow.

What gives?

Graham