From: "dtown22@..." <dtown22@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T08:55:05+09:00
Subject: trouble with pathname (i.e slashes) & windows

Hi,

I am a bit of a ruby newbie, and i cant figure out this problem. I am
recursively searching through some directories, and when i find the
one i want, i try to pass it to an external process, through 'system'
but the forward slashes screw things up.

i tried replacing the forward slashes through gsub, but i end up with
2 slashes. for example, if i am trying to 'dir' a path, this ends up
being sent through system:

dir c:\\myStartDir/currentDir   #obviously this wont work, so i tried
using gsub, and i get this

dir c:\\myStartDir\\currentDir #and 'dir' complains it cant find the
directory.

my code looks something like this

dirPath =  File.dirname(path).gsub('/', "\\")
system("dir " + dirPath)

path is determined using Find.find(c:\\myStartDir)

any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!