From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-07-14T06:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating a range of directories

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Simon Harrison <simon@simonharrison.net>wrote:

> I'm wanting to create a range of directories with a prefix, like the
> following:
>
> /prefix-001
> /prefix-002
>
> etc.
>
> The following works, but seems to smell a bit.
>
> ***************************
>
> require 'fileutils'
> include FileUtils
>
> var = 1..100
> dirs = var.map { |n| "%03d" % n }
> dirs.each { |n| n.insert(0, "Prefix-") }
>
> mkdir(dirs)
>
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>
> Any better ways to accomplish this? And, does anyone know of a good
> tutorial/book for working with files and directories?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Also in this case, where you use a FileUtils method only once, including it
seems to be more overhead than benefit. But if you do prefer inclusion, then
in cases like this, where you only ever call its methods from main, I think
it is better to extend rather than include. This way you don't pollute
Object with all of its methods.

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