From: Tim Heaney <heaney@...>
Date: 2003-04-27T06:50:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I change directories?

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:
>
> How do I change directory from a Ruby program?
> 
> I tried 'system("cd #{dir}")' but it didn't work.

Ruby has its own chdir; you don't have to ask the system to cd.

  puts Dir.getwd
  Dir.chdir(dir)
  puts Dir.getwd

I hope this helps,

Tim