From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T20:54:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?

7stud -- wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> VERSION
> => "1.8.6"
> irb(main):002:0> File.basename("C:\\home\\gumby\\work\\ruby.rb")
> => "C:\\home\\gumby\\work\\ruby.rb"
> irb(main):003:0>
>   

So you ran ruby on linux (or OSX) and gave it a fully qualified windows 
filename, what were you expecting?

Some magical utility that can take a string and work out what operating 
system the filename comes from and then parse that?

Patches welcome.