Greg Willits wrote:
> So, I was surprised to find out that Dir.mkdir will not create all
> folders in a path when more than just the last level does not exist.
> Example: Dir.mkdir('/f1/f2/f3') will not create /f3 when /f2 does not
> exist. I expected it to make both /f2 and /f3 to get the job done. I
> expected it because the language I used most previously did do that.
> 
> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.
> 
> Obviously I could split the path at / and iterate through each folder
> name in sequence with an Exists? and mkdir follow up if needed.
> 
> Is that really the only option? To do this manually?


ARGH. FileUtils.mkdir_p()

(never fails to find the answer right after posting)

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