From: Peter Cooper <peter@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T01:31:40+09:00
Subject: Re: File.new and non-existent directories

On 6/13/07, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are correct, File.new creates files, not directories.
>
> Check out Dir and FileUtils: http://ruby-doc.org/core/
>
> FileUtils.mkdir "..." unless File.directory?('...')

And also (in the spirit of TMTOWTDI):

require 'ftools'
File.makedirs("dir1/dir2/dir3")

As covered before (
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/50237 )

Cheers,
Peter Cooper
http://www.rubyinside.com/