From: MonkeeSage Date: 2006-09-21T18:55:06+09:00 Subject: Re: How to Traverse a Directory MonkeeSage wrote: > > puts file > > traverse(root + '\\' + file) if File.directory?(root + '\\' + file) > > This is also not very portable. Better to use File.join(root, file) You can also refactor that to this: puts file = File.join(root, file) # assignment returns its value traverse(file) if File.directory?(file)