From: "p. Corey" <probablyCorey@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T01:30:03+09:00
Subject: Feedback on new Path Library

I created a new Path library (http://pow.rubyforge.org) that combines
a lot of the functionality of Dir, FileUtils, File and Pathname into
one with a object centered approach. I'm looking for some feedback to
see if people would find this useful, or if I am the only one that get
frustrated when trying to deal with paths in ruby.

Here are some quick example of how it makes things easier...
  File.read(File.join(DIR_CONSTANT, "some_text.txt"))
you be written as
  Pow[DIR_CONSTANT, "some_text.txt].read

Or if you wanted to to find the number of files in each sub directory
  Pathname.new("/usr/lib/ruby/1.8").children(true).select {|p|
p.directory?}.collect {|d| d.children.length}
you would do
  Pow["/usr/lib/ruby/1.8"].directories.collect {|d| d.files.length}

Also if you want to create a nested directory structure you can easily
do that.
  Pow["./moar"].create do
    Pow["empty_dir"].create

    Pow["sub_dir"].create do
      Pow["info.txt"].create {|file| file.puts "Here is the info you
desired!"}
    end
  end

would create...
/moar
  /empty_dir
  /sub_dir
    info.txt

It is still a work in progress so any feedback would be great! I
realize this is all just syntactic sugar, but i find it much easier
than using bits of File, Dir, FileUtils and Pathname all over the
place.

Corey

P.S. Why did I call it Pow? Because it was quick to type and all other
path-type names were taken!