From: Luke Bayes <lbayes@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T12:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: File.exists? ignores file extension on windows?

As it turns out, I'm running ruby 1.8.5 and consistently reproduce the
issue in both irb and running a ruby file.

Here is the file that I'm running:

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require 'fileutils'

base_name = 'fcsh'
ext_name = 'fcsh.exe'

if(File.exists?(ext_name))
  File.delete(ext_name)
end

puts "Testing #{base_name}"
puts "exists a: #{File.exists?(base_name)}"
FileUtils.touch(ext_name)
puts "exists b: #{File.exists?(base_name)}"
puts "exists c: #{File.exists?(ext_name)}"

=> Testing fcsh
=> exists a: false
=> exists b: true
=> exists c: true

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I tried running it without using FileUtils, thinking maybe they had a
mixin that was causing problems, but no difference. I'm really glad I
had this old version because I'm planning on distributing this library
to random end users that may very well also have this older version of
Ruby!

Thanks,

Luke Bayes
http://www.asserttrue.com