> Sadly, even File.join() doesn't do the right thing on Windows:
> 
>     irb(main):001:0> File.join('C:\src', 'ruby')
>     "C:\\src/ruby"

It seems even the 1.6.6-0 for Win is happier (requires?) with / instead of \
... but I've not looked at it closely, as most of my stuff is still /
because of cygwin.

Chris