Ruby Dir.glob issue only on Windows

Question

This line:

dirs = Dir.glob(some_file_path + '/' + '**' + '/')

works as it should on OSX and linux. The same line on Windows:

dirs = Dir.glob(some_file_path + '\\' + '**' + '\\')

returns no directories. What am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to get an array of all of a folders sub folders recursively, and the code above works really nice on a *nix system is there something I need to do differently on windows?

Also note: that on all operating systems I'm using ruby 2.1.5.

August, I wrote the post really quickly. In my code the slashes are escaped like this '\\'. — almyz125, Jan 17 '15 at 23:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '15 at 23:11

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Using the '/' will work on Windows as well (Ruby is smart for this).

answered Jan 17 '15 at 23:11

daremkd

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Unfortunately that did not change anything. :-( – almyz125 Jan 17 '15 at 23:14
What version of Windows are you using? – daremkd Jan 17 '15 at 23:15
Can you provide some context of what some_file_path contains? What value? – daremkd Jan 17 '15 at 23:16
C:\Users\alex\Desktop\homes and below that is some folders and within those folders are files and folders. – almyz125 Jan 17 '15 at 23:17
So what are you trying to display exactly? All the files inside some_file_path or? – daremkd Jan 17 '15 at 23:18
You were right, sorry about that the file paths in my yml file were using \ not / changing them there fixed the issue. – almyz125 Jan 17 '15 at 23:20

Ruby Dir.glob issue only on Windows

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