From: bbiker <renard@...>
Date: 2007-08-15T04:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Non Existent Method Dir.empty? Description via "ri"

On Aug 14, 1:33 pm, "Wolfgang N�dasi-donner" <ed.oda...@wonado.de>
wrote:
> 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 N�dasi-Donner
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It does not seem to work on my system

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'win32/dir'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Dir::empty?('./')
NoMethodError: undefined method `empty?' for Dir:Class
        from (irb):2

using win32-dir version 0.3.2