From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T00:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.entries have no home

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:44:20PM +0900, Ron Jeffries wrote:
>    def filesUnderManagement
>       names = (Dir.entries(@directoryName).
>           select { | each | ! (/.bak/ =~ each) }).sort
>       names.reject { |each| FileTest.directory?(each) }
>    end

> Have others stumbled over this as well?
> What do you do about it?

Stumbled over this in rpkg just a couple of days ago and did about the
same, i.e.:

def RPkg.extract(directory = '.')
  Dir.chdir(directory)
  `tar zxf #{@archive}`
end


Massimiliano