From: Newbie <none@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T02:10:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Traverse a Directory

MonkeeSage wrote:
>>  next if file[0] == ?.
> 
> This will probably work for most cases in windows (though not always),
> but it definitely a bad idea for any other OS (because filenames can
> start with a . to mean they should be hidden in normal listing modes).
> What I usually use is -- next if ['.', '..'].include? file -- which
> checks if the full filename == '.' or '..'

Good point - perhaps http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Find.html should be fixed ;-)