From: grooveska <ryangs@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T07:19:56+09:00
Subject: pulling elements into a method...

I am new to ruby and I'm having trouble with a script I'm working on.
It probably is something simple that I am missing.  I am working on a
script to delete some files from several directories.

Here is the part of the script I'm having problems with:

time = Time.now            #set time object to the current time
month = time.month         #grab the number of the month from the
current
day = time.day             #grab the day of the current time
year = time.year           #grab the year of the current time

day = day - 14
def delete_old_files(dir, time)
Dir.chdir(dir) do
Dir.foreach(".") do |entry|
next if File.stat(entry).directory?  #prevent from deleting
directories

#Use the modification time
if File.mtime(entry) < time
  File.unlink(entry)
end
end
end
end

cleanup_dirs = ["E:/oracle/MB4/oraarch/", "E:/oracle/MB3/oraarch/",
"E:/oracle/MB5/oraarch", "F:/oracle/MBA/oraarch/", "F:/oracle/MB2/
oraarch/", "F:/oracle/MB3/oraarch/", "F:/oracle/MB/oraarch/"]
 cleanup_dirs.each do |cleanup_directory|

delete_old_files(cleanup_directory,Time.local(year,month,day,00,00,0))

end


I should probably use a block or proc or something like that.  Any
advice is greatly appreciated. I'm getting the argument out of range
error.

Thanks.