From: Kyle Barbour <kylebarbour@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T05:10:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Iteration through File.file? misses entries for which 	File.file?(entry) == true -- FIXED

Thanks for all the responses! I feel so thoroughly helped :)

On Aug 2, 7:01 am, Marvin Gülker <sutn...@gmx.net> wrote:
> By calling Dir.foreach("dir") you'll get "my_file" and "my_second_file".
> Your File.file? statement then checks for the presence of the filenames
> in the current working directory -- where they don't reside. Solution:
> Append "dir" to the filename.

Martin - thanks for the diagnosis, that makes perfect sense. Awesome.
That works very well and solves my problem!

On Aug 2, 6:05 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> As an alternative, Dir["etc/*"] builds an Array directly. So you could
> have:
>
> def get_files(dir)
>   Dir["#{dir}/*"].select { |x| File.file?(x) }
> end

Interesting, thanks! Is there any reason to prefer either this
solution or the one Martin gave in the above post?

Also: everyone, thanks for the newbie friendliness and for the general
advice (snake_case, negative logic, etc.). Thoroughly appreciated.

Kyle