From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-03-18T09:54:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby way to find free space on drive?

walter@mwsewall.com wrote in message news:<405833D6.27159.9D31F7@localhost>...
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Is there a "ruby way" to find the free space on a drive.  I checked 
> the archives, but all I found was some talk of this 2 years ago, and 
> the solution was to use the win32api.  I am using 1.8.1-11 prag-prog 
> install for windows.
> 
> I know I can do  :
> /\s([\d,]+) bytes free/m =~ `dir f:`
> puts $1.split(',').join.to_i

The best way would use the Win32API module, or a C extension. 
Otherwise, you'll have to resort to parsed output as you've done here.

> 
> and that does work, but there seems like there should be a better way 
> that I am missing.  I can see myself needing to run this on a Unix 
> box fairly soon as well.

See the "filesystem" package somewhere at
http://www.enteract.com/~mghall.

Regards,

Dan