From: Jason Persampieri <jason@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T08:50:28+09:00
Subject: Creating directories with File.open

I'm attempting to create a file within a directory
structure that may or may not exist yet.

File.open("tempdir/foo.txt","w") fails seemingly
because the 'tempdir' directory does not yet exist. 
Is this proper behavior?  If the user wants to create
the FILE, why would File#open assume they wouldn't
want to create the underlying directory as well?

Is there another method that WOULD go ahead and create
the directory for me?

Jason