[rake] excluding dirs with FileList

[Joel VanderWerf]

How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

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How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

require 'find'

file_list = []
start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
from.

Find.find(start_path) do |file|
file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
end

p file_list

This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do. See
$ ri test for more info.
HTH-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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[William James]

How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

list = []
Dir.glob( "*" ){ |f|
list << f unless File.directory?(f)
}
p list

 

[Stefan Lang]

How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a
particular directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #===
method returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But
#exclude tries to turn its argument into a string and build up a
regex.

require 'find'

file_list = []
start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
from.

Find.find(start_path) do |file|
file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
end

p file_list

This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do.

Sorry if this sounds like bad advertisement, but with Rant
the same looks like:

file_list = sys["/path/to/directory/**/*"].no_dir

Perhaps someone wants to integrate it into Rake.

HTH,
Stefan