From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-05-09T04:54:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Move a folder

Dirk Einecke wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I want to move a folder from "/folder1/foo" to "/folder2/foo". I can not 
> find a function for moving a folder. Is it right that I've to copy the 
> src-folder (with FileUtils.cp_r) and then remove this one from the old src?

FileUtils.mv works for me:

[~] cd tmp
[~/tmp] mkdir folder1
[~/tmp] mkdir folder2
[~/tmp] mkdir folder1/foo
[~/tmp] irb -r fileutils
irb(main):001:0> FileUtils.mv 'folder1/foo', 'folder2/foo'
=> 0
irb(main):003:0> Dir['**/*']
=> ["a.rb", "b.rb", "folder1", "folder2", "folder2/foo"]