On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Greg Willits <lists / gregwillits.ws> 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.

Dir.mkdir emulates the unix mkdir command, which behaves this way.  It
shouldn't be surprising.

> After some googling I'm not finding any elegant solutions.

Did you try ri?

> 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?

No.  Look into FileUtils, specifically FileUtils.mkdir_p

Ben