From: adam@... (Adam Spiers)
Date: 2001-11-17T00:48:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25450] File#abspath extension and FindBin module

Hi all,

I have to agree with the other delurkers - ruby is a truly beautiful
language with all my favourite bits of Perl left in, all the nastiness
taken out, and some fantastic new ideas added.

I've written a FindBin module, which is essentially a simplified port
of Perl's FindBin.  To achieve it, I also had to code an abs_path
method which turns any path into an absolute path with all symbolic
links resolved (as opposed to File#expand_path, which doesn't follow
links).

I'd like to contribute these snippets of code, but being a ruby newbie
(hey, that rhymes :-) I'm not sure what the best approach is.  My
colleague suggested that abs_path might go in ftools, and findbin.rb
in the Ruby Application Archive.  Does that sound right?

-- 
Adam Spiers -=- musician & hacker -=- adam@spiers.net -=- http://tigerpig.org/
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