From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-08-19T11:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Sticky bit via pure ruby

Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> In unix you can do:
> 
>   chmod -v a+wt /tmp
> 
> To set the sticky bit.
> 
> But how can I do this via ruby?

FileUtils in 1.9.3 has this capability, previous versions did not:

~/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby -rfileutils -e "FileUtils.chmod('a+wt', '/tmp')"