From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-17T08:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: question about .gsub

Jochen Kaechelin wrote:

/ ...

>> Seems a shame to strip off all that tree-like formatting and characters,
>> created with so much effort.
> 
> I want them to be store in a mysql-database.

By "them" do you mean individual file names, or the entire tree structure?
If the former, which parts of the file information do you need?

I ask because Ruby has many terrific ways to extract file information,
without having to make Windows system calls.

/ ...

>> By the way, what are you trying to create? There are better ways to
>> produce a tree display within Ruby itself.
> 
> I want to build a dropdown-menu so the admin ca select the
> homedirectory of an ftpuser.
> 
> Could you please point me to a better solution?

Only with better information. How are the FTP users organized? What kind of
drop-down menu, using what GUI library?

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Paul Lutus
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