From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T08:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?

tom_33 wrote:
> I am very new to Ruby and my question is about trying to understand
> why Ruby is often described as a "pure object-oriented language", when
> the core library seems to be quite procedural.
>   
> <snip>
>   
> Now my question is what have I been missing here ?
> I mean, is there any other much better File class somewhere in the
> Ruby core that is more pure OO, or otherwise why is a language with a
> CORE procedural "class" library described as being a pure oo
> language ?
>
> / Tom


You seem to only be looking at the class methods for File, which are 
basically utilities. Most of the real functionality is in the IO[1] 
class, File's superclass.

-Justin

[1]http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html