From: Philip Hallstrom <ruby@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T06:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a Find.find() bug?

>> On 2/15/07, robertlaferla@comcast.net <robertlaferla@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was trying out Find.find() today and found that if you pass it a
>>> directory without a trailing slash, it doesn't traverse the directory. 
>>> This
>>> seems like a bug to me.  Is it?  If so, how do I report it?
>>> 
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>>   require 'find'
>>>   Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
>>>    puts path
>>>   end
>>> 
>>> vs.
>>>
>>>   require 'find'
>>>   Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
>>>    puts path
>>>   end
>>> 
>>> 
>> Unless I'm missing something, your two examples are exactly
>> the same.
>> 
>> I am running ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-freebsd6]
>> 
>> And I tried a quick test
>> of:    Find.find("/tmp")
>> vs:    Find.find("/tmp/")
>> 
>> And I seemed to get the same result from both.  In my case, both
>> tests found 131 directories and 27 "other things" (ie, "not directories").
>> 
>> What platform are you running ruby on?
>> Which version of ruby are you running?
>
> i __think__ this could happen if /tmp were a soft link... ??

It can using normal OS commands so I'd imagine the same is true with 
Ruby...