On Dec 21, 8:35 ¨Âí¬ Éîôòáîóéôéïî ¼ôòáîóæ®®®Àçíáéì®ãïí÷òïôåº > It seems FileTest lacks a `relative?` method (and conversely `absolute? > `). I need such a method. I went to write one but found my self not > 100% certain about it being cross-platform. I wrote: > > module FileTest > module_function > > def relative?(path) > /\A[\/\\]/ !~ File.expand_path(path) > end > end > > > Is all that really necessary? My version may be too simplistic, but > surely there is more concise way to do this? Your code is not contemplating drive letters. -- Luis Lavena