From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-11-19T06:20:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25788] RE:  Ruby in windows

This is what I get from command line:

C:\>ruby -e'puts Dir.pwd'
/cygdrive/c

C:\>ruby -e'puts `cmd.exe /c cd`'
C:\

Shouldn't these agree?  Also I have no directory \cygdrive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hahn [mailto:mchahn@facelink.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:18 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:25777] Ruby in windows

I was very surprised to find that Dir.pwd in windows returns a path relative
to the Ruby directory.  Does it do this in the unix world?  This is clearly
wrong.

I need to access mounted Windows volumes.  Is there any easier way for me to
list the contents of W:\ than this?

	require 'rbconfig'
	include Config
	File.open('run.bat','w') {|f| f.write("w:\r\ndir\r\n")}
	puts (if ENV.has_key?("OS") && ENV["OS"] =~ /nt/i
	   	`cmd.exe /c run.bat`
	else
		`command.com /c run.bat`
	end)

If not, then this is a big gap in Ruby's support of Windows.  A common use
of scripting languages is file manipulation and lacking file support would
really knock Ruby out of consideration for windows scripting.