From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-12-22T08:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest.relative?

On Dec 21, 8:35 pm, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems FileTest lacks a `relative?` method (and conversely `absolute?
> `). I need such a method. I went to write one but found my self not
> 100% certain about it being cross-platform. I wrote:
>
>   module FileTest
>     module_function
>
>     def relative?(path)
>       /\A[\/\\]/ !~ File.expand_path(path)
>     end
>   end
>
>
> Is all that really necessary? My version may be too simplistic, but
> surely there is more concise way to do this?

Your code is not contemplating drive letters.

--
Luis Lavena