From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-01T00:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to copy the directory files only to another directory?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Arup Rakshit <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> The above code during renaming deleting the file also from here
> "File.absolute_path(fname)".

When you rename something, you are moving it -- if you wish to retain
those files in their original place, you need to copy them to the new
destination, not rename them.