From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-04T09:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating directories with File.open

Hi,

In message "Creating directories with File.open"
    on 02/12/04, Jason Persampieri <jason@persampieri.net> writes:

|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?

Put

 require 'ftools'
 File.mkpath "tempdir"

or

 require 'fileutils'
 FileUtils.mkpath "tempdir"

before "open".

							matz.