From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2010-07-23T05:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: HowTo get ruby to report a sumbolic link?

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, James Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> Which tells me that the link is there but it is reporting the target
> directory and not the link itself.  How do I tell if the thing that I am
> checking is a symbolic link to a directory and not the directory itself?

ri File::Stat tells me that there's a #symlink? method you could use:

  File.stat( @soft_link_target ).should be_symlink

... I believe that's the right syntax for rspec, but you get the idea.

Ben