From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T13:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?


On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:25 PM, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney wrote:
> The real
> shame in my mind is that File.new doesn't accept a pathname as a first
> parameter, only a string.

That works in 1.9.  In fact File.new will accept any argument the  
implements #to_path, which should return the string to be passed to  
the OS.

irb-1.9> File.new(Pathname.new('/etc/motd'))
=> #<File:/etc/motd>