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File.join Shorthand

05.20.2009

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        A Ruby shorthand for writing foo/bar instead of File.join(foo, bar)

class String
  def /(other)
    File.join(self, other)
  end
end

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Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2008/06/23 - 1:39pm

You can also consider applying this to the File and Pathname classes, and calling to_s on other so you can write Pathname.new("/etc") / "foo" / :bar / 1