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A Replacement For Ruby's File.join

08.20.2006
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        File.join is ugly, there I've said it. So how about being able to replace this:


require File.join(LOAD_PATH, 'foobar')


With this:


require LOAD_PATH/:foobar


Trivial, really:


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

Comments

Nic Williams replied on Thu, 2006/04/20 - 8:32am

That's brilliant! I love changing the language :)
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