From: ChrisKaelin <ck.stonedragon@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T15:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: File.delete -> Permission denied

On 8 Apr., 21:36, Antoine De Groote <anto...@vo.lu> wrote:
> 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

I had the same problem with the logfiles on my script-framework. They
just could not be deleted on windows, until I tried to close them
explicitly after any usage. I don't know windows file-locking
mechanism, but closing any open file(handles) will save you troubles
anyway.
In your code above, you are doing a close, but right after opening,
maybe that's a problem?