From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-04-03T04:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does File.join use "/" on Windows?

On Mar 30, 3:07 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 30.03.2007 03:21, Bret Pettichord wrote:
>
> > I just had to work on some code that ran into trouble, because Ruby
> > uses "/" to separate folders, but the path was being passed to a
> > separate command (using system) that expected Window's paths to use
> > "\".
>
> > C:\Users\bret>irb
> > irb(main):001:0> File.join "foo", "bar"
> > => "foo/bar"
> > irb(main):002:0>
>
> > I told my collegues that instead of using File.join, they should just
> > use + "\\" +
>
> I'd probably rather use ["foo", "bar"].join File::SEPARATOR (if that's
> set to \\ on Windows).

Wuby always uses backslashes. :)

Regards,

Dan