From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T02:38:54+09:00
Subject: Pathname#relative_path_from questions

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.6p111

I'm curious about the result of Pathname#relative_path_from. Consider
this:

require 'pathname'
path1 = Pathname.new('a')
path2 = Pathname.new('b')

path1.relative_path_from(path2).to_s => => "../a"

My first question is philosophical. Should this method work at all
with two relative paths? Or, in the interests of being useful instead
of correct, should we just assume a common root?

My second question is technical. Should the result be "./a"? I mean,
if we assume a common root, the a and b files are in the same
directory, not the parent directory, correct?

Thanks,

Dan