Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> James West wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Depenbding on whether running under windows or unix/mac I obviously need
>> to use the \ instead of the / character for shell commands so I have 2
>> questions really
>> 1) I would love to know if anyone has a neat way of dealing with
>> converting paths to use '\' instead of '/' for use with command line
>> calls like command and backtick?
>
> path.gsub('/', '\\')
>
> Actually, you may need 4 backslashes instead of 2; Ruby does weird thing
> with backslashes. But that should get you going.
>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> [email protected]
path.gsub would do the job. Thankyou.
I need to know how to determine the current operating system in order to
decide whether or not to call the gsub routine. Any ideas?
I'm thinking that Rails must have a way of dealing with this otherwise
it wouldn't run on Windows.
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