From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T01:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ?

On Feb 20, 1:06 pm, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, the documentation is incorrect: it states that the only path
> separator accepted by File.basename is "/" regardless of OS. But the
> method clearly accepts "\" (properly escaped) on Windows systems.
>

That is because Ruby on Windows defines File::ALT_SEPARATOR and on
*nix doesn't:

irb(main):001:0> File::SEPARATOR
=> "/"
irb(main):002:0> File::ALT_SEPARATOR
=> "\\"
irb(main):003:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "i386-mswin32"

irb(main):001:0> File::SEPARATOR
=> "/"
irb(main):002:0> File::ALT_SEPARATOR
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
=> "x86_64-linux"

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena