From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-10-24T11:28:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Any nice way to get a temporary directory?

Hi,

At Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:24:20 +0900,
Kenneth McDonald wrote in [ruby-talk:318458]:
> I'd like to be able to obtain a temporary directory in the same way I  
> can easily obtain a temporary file, but there doesn't seem to be a  
> function for this. Currently, I'm creating a temp file, getting it's  
> name, unlinking it, and then creating a dir with the same name. But  
> this is ugly, and in theory subject to a race condition. Is there a  
> better way of doing this?

Dir.mktmpdir is available in lib/tmpdir.rb since 1.8.7.

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Nobu Nakada