James Britt wrote:
> 
> So asks Dr. Scripto at Microsoft TechNet
> 
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/puzzle/default.mspx
> 
> 
> At the very bottom, they say, "Or and it pains us to say this could
> this be our fault? WhatÃÔ wrong with this script?"
> 
> Well, it's obvious: the script is not written in Ruby.
> 
> Maybe they need a few decent Ruby solutions.

It's a good question.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a cross-platform way of asking "how much
disk space is available here?"

Java's doing it soon!
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4057701

Is there a way of using df that's consistent across Linuxes/BSDs/Mac (-k
perhaps?)

Here's a start:

class << self
  define_method :bytes_free, &begin
    require 'Win32API'
    df = Win32API.new("kernel32", "GetDiskFreeSpaceEx", "pppp", "i")
    proc do |dir|
      df.call(dir, ret="    ", "    ", "    "); ret.unpack("L")[0]
    end
  rescue LoadError
    proc do |dir|
      `df -k #{dir}`[/\n.{20} (\d+)/, 1].to_i
    end
  end
end

p bytes_free(".")
p bytes_free("some/other/path")

Cheers,
Dave