On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Assaf Arkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Nathan Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I've found that my instantiation of the Rake Package task for
>> packaging up a Rails app isn't including the '.specification' files in
>> the '/vendor/gems/**/*' pattern. I've recreated this on Linux and Mac
>> OS X.
>>
>> It seems the issue is that the files, which are copied from their
>> origin to the target folder, are missing the files. I'm guessing this
>> is because of the underlying copy commands, but haven't dug into it
>> yet.
>
> FileList (also Dir.glob, File.fnmatch) does not match dot files when you use
> the pattern "*". That's by design, dot files are hidden, so the default
> behavior is to not match them. You can use the option File::FNM_DOTMATCH,
> or change the pattern to match "{.*,*}".
I assumed it was default behavior, i just didn't know how to get it
changed in this case.
Is the use of curly braces in the FileList [] method documented
somewhere, I haven't seen that before? Is "{.*,*}" the same as two
separate patterns ".*" and "*" in the same FileList[]?
Thanks for the help.
-Nathan
> Assaf Arkin
> Blogging at labnotes.org
>
>>
>> Has anyone else run into this? Is there anyway to get Rake to pickup
>> '.specification' or any other "dot" files?
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