On May 7, 2009, at 2:06 PM, JannaB wrote:
>
> I want to get the names of all files in a given directory. When I
> employ the Dir[] method, it returns the name of the files with the
> pathname I invoked it with:
>
> allfiles = Dir["public/images/icons/**"]
>
> So to remedy this, I try to sub out the directory prefixing the
> string, as:
>
> for fil in allfiles do
> render :text => fil.sub( "public/images/icons/",
> "" )
> end
>
> Yet even this doesn't remove the directory name. Clearly I am doing
> something stooopid, but just don't see it. Can someone please have a
> look and see what I am missing here? Thanks you, Janna
File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb") #=> "ruby.rb"
File.basename("/home/gumby/work/ruby.rb", ".rb") #=> "ruby"
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