From: Grant Curell <grantcurell@...>
Date: 2010-10-23T22:35:31+09:00
Subject: Non-Hard Coded File.open(newFile)

Like a lot of people I'm new to Ruby and I'm trying to do something I
thought would be pretty simple. I want the user to give me input in the
form of a filename and then subsequently open the file. Here is what I
have so far:

class FileHandler

  def initialize()
    @fileToParse = fileToParse #I get user input in the form of gets in
                               #another class.
    if File.new(fileToParse)
      puts 'File successfully opened.'
    else
      puts 'File failed to open.'
      Kernel.exit

    end
  end
end

However, that won't work. Doing something like
File.new("C:/Users/grant/Desktop/test.txt") works just fine though. The
way I'm currently doing it throws the following error:

F:/Programming/eclipseWorkspace/CSE_655/file_handler.rb:8:in
`initialize': Invalid argument - C:/Users/grant/Desktop/test.txt
(Errno::EINVAL)

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