From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-08-19T06:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: change into symlink directory - how?


On Aug 18, 2011, at 02:58 , Alexander Schaal wrote:

> how to I change into a symlink directory?
> 
> In the bash I wrote:
> 
> mkdir abc
> ln -s abc abclink
> 
> Now in ruby:
> 
> Dir.chdir("abclink")
> Dir.pwd
> => "...../abc"
> 
> I want to change in "abclink", not "abc" like it's done in the bash:
> 
> cd abclink
> pwd
> => "...../abclink
> 
> How can I do that in ruby?

that's just a feature of bash (which I always turn off with `set -P`). It doesn't mean you're actually in abclink, just that it looks that way. 

I know of no way to make chdir/pwd work that way in ruby.