From: Torsten Mangner <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-07-04T15:48:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Folder Size

Clement Ow wrote:
> When I use File.size("C:/ruby"), all it returns is 0.
> But for files it does work fine. So is there a way to calculate folder
> size?

since a directory is just something virtual, it has a size of 0.

you will have to get all of the files the folder includes (recursive) 
and sum their sizes up.
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