From: Robert Sheehan <r.sheehan@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T05:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: File.delete -> Permission denied

Antoine De Groote wrote:

> 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

Dir.foreach also returns '.' and '..'.
The error message is saying you can't delete the current directory (it 
still contains files).