From: Yuri Klubakov Date: 2007-07-18T05:17:21+09:00 Subject: Change in Dir.glob behavior on Windows between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 I've checked ruby-talk emails regarding Dir.glob and File.join but didn't see this one reported before. C:\> ruby --version ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-mswin32] C:\> irb irb(main):001:0> Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], '*.rnd')) => [C:\\Documents and Settings\\yura/putty.rnd"] C:\> ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32] C:\> irb irb(main):001:0> Dir.glob(File.join(ENV['USERPROFILE'], '*.rnd')) => [] -- yura