From: Daniel Bye <ruby@...>
Date: 2010-07-20T23:39:19+09:00
Subject: Re: File.basename

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:08:40PM +0900, James O'Brien wrote:
> File.open('myfile') do |f|
>     puts f.basename;
> end
>=20
> myfile exists on the filesystem but this code blows up with
>=20
> undefined method `basename'
>=20
> could someone explain why (given the docs
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html
> advertise the basename method)

It's a class method, not an instance method.

File.open('myfile') do |f|
  puts File.basename(f)
end

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Daniel Bye
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