POLS ANT file pattern in Ruby

Hi,

I am returning to a bit of Ruby hacking after spending a couple of years =
away from it.  I met someone who is newer to Ruby and caught some of =
their excitement for it (Hi Dan).=20

My day job has me writing Java code.  As many of you will know the =
default build tool for Java projects is ANT.  ANT is a step forward from =
the pre-ANT world, but has problems -- one of the big ones is that it is =
XML based, and thus verbose.  XML as good as YAML for data, and not as =
good as Ruby for programming :). =20

Dan and I were talking about building a Ruby replacement for ANT.  One =
week-end we both decided to start writing it, and came up with =
test-cases.. Dan came up with a name (BOB), and there is now a piece of =
vapourware.

My test cases are to do with ANT FileSetish behavour.

Ant has some interesting globbing functionality that works very similar =
to File::fnmatch, but slightly different.

I like the ant way, but don't want to suprise Ruby people.

Here is the test cases that talk about the behaviour I want.

File.fnmatch would provide similar functionality (with =
File::FNM_PATHNAME it comes really close), except I don't see that the =
last test could past easily.

Before I make the last test pass, I want to know if Ruby people would =
find the behaviour described to be suprising?

        matcher =3D FilePatternMatcher.new
        assert(matcher.match("test.txt", "test.txt"))
        assert(matcher.match("test.txt", "*"))
        assert(matcher.match("second.txt", "*"))
        assert(matcher.match("test.txt", "*.txt"),  "*.txt should match =
test.txt")
        matcher =3D FilePatternMatcher.new
        assert(matcher.match("test.txt", "test.*"), "test.* should match =
test.txt")
        assert(!matcher.match("somedirectory/test.txt", "*.txt"), "*.txt =
should not match somedirectory/test.txt")
        assert(!matcher.match("test.txt", "*.doc"))
        assert(matcher.match("first/second/test.txt", "**/test.txt"))
        =
assert(!matcher.match("first/second/third/fourth/fifth/test.txt", =
"**/third/*/test.txt"))


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