On Aug 16, 3:38 pm, barjunk <barj... / attglobal.net> wrote:
> I thought if I did:
>
> File.move("mydir","mynewdir")
>
> it would do a move...but it seems to make a file out of the directory
> I'm trying to move.
>
> The end result I get is a file named mynewdir.  What I want is a new
> directory containing all of the information in the mydir directory
> called mynewdir.
>
> Am I going to have to use a copy and a rm of the old dir?
>
> What's the "right way" to do that?
>
> Mike B.


I forgot to add that it is ruby 1.8.4.