From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-08-15T02:33:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Non Existent Method Dir.empty? Description via "ri"

Daniel Berger wrote:
> On Aug 12, 3:01 pm, "Wolfgang N�dasi-donner" <ed.oda...@wonado.de>
> wrote:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>      Returns whether or not +path+ is empty. Returns false if +path+ is
>>      not a directory, or contains any files other than '.' or '..'.
>>
>> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\wolfgang>irb
>> irb(main):001:0> Dir::empty?('./')
>> NoMethodError: undefined method `empty?' for Dir:Class
>>         from (irb):1
>> irb(main):002:0>
> 
> You're picking up Dir.empty? from win32-dir, which ships with the one-
> click installer. In order to use it, you have to require it first. :)

Booofff... - thank you for this information!

irb(main):001:0> require 'win32/dir'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Dir::empty?('./')
=> false

Unfortunately it is not visible in the ri output where the method comes 
from.

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
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