From: Antoine De Groote <antoine@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T04:35:11+09:00
Subject: File.delete -> Permission denied

Hello,

I'm new to Ruby (coming from Python) and I already have trouble.

The following code (on Windows XP, Ruby 1.8.5):

Dir.chdir 'c:/documents and settings/antoine/desktop'
Dir.mkdir 'test'
Dir.chdir 'test'
%w{ a b c }.each { |f| File.open(f+'.txt', 'w').close }
Dir.foreach('.') { |f| File.delete f }

throws this error message:

problem.rb:5:in `delete': Permission denied - . (Errno::EACCES)
         from problem.rb:5
         from problem.rb:5:in `foreach'
         from problem.rb:5

I've tried to find an answer to this strange behaviour for a couple of 
hours now, but I can't find one. Could anybody point me to a solution of 
the problem?

Kind regards,
antoine