From: Robert Klemme Date: 2007-11-21T01:49:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Libs for high-level file processing? 2007/11/20, Casimir : > Is there anything you comp.lang.ruby readers would recommend that would > abstract away things like "if file load fails" or "if file not found" or > "index of all .xml -files in the subdirs"? I am not sure what you are missing. You can do File.open("foo") do |io| end resuce nil if File.exists? "foo" xml_files = Dir["bas/**/*.xml"] Which is pretty small I'd say. What am I missing? Kind regards robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end