From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2010-10-04T22:06:03+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i delete files in particular directoryin ruby ???

On Monday 04 October 2010, Amit Tomar wrote:
> |Steel Steel wrote:
> |> Amit Tomar wrote:
> |>> dir ="C:/DOCUME~1/x0100039/LOCALS~1/Temp"
> |> 
> |> Try using the full path (without ~)
> |
> |Thanks steel i tried with full name but still getting problem
> |
> |require 'fileutils'
> |
> |dir ="C:/Documents and Settings/x0100039/Local Settings/Temp"
> |Dir.chdir(dir)
> |Dir.glob('*').each do|f|
> |
> |  FileUtils.rm(f)
> |
> |
> | end
> |but am getting these error:
> |C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1297:in `unlink':
> |Permission denied - CGI.3408.1 (Errno::EACCES)
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1297:in
> |`remove_file'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1305:in
> |`platform_support'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1296:in
> |`remove_file'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:771:in
> |`remove_file'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:549:in
> |`rm'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:548:in
> |`each'
> |  from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:548:in
> |`rm'
> |  from ruby2.rb:8
> |  from ruby2.rb:5:in `each'
> |  from ruby2.rb:5

Have you tried removing one of those files by hand? If that works, then we now 
the issue is with ruby. If it doesn't, you may get a clearer error message 
and, at least, we'll know the issue is not with your code.

Stefano