Ruby Issue Tracking System

11/17/2012

07:31 AM Ruby Bug #7374: File.expand_path resolving to first file/dir instead of absolute path

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No other scenario. Caught that bug trying to install a plugin to redmine 2.1.2 with ruby 1.9.3p327
Redmine then attempt to add plugins routes with the following code:
(({Dir.glob File.expand_path("plugins/*", Rails.root) d... mdube@arcane-technologies.com (Martin Dubé)

07:19 AM Ruby Bug #7374: File.expand_path resolving to first file/dir instead of absolute path

luislavena (Luis Lavena) wrote:
> Martin,
> ...
Yes, same problem with r37691:
C:\ruby-2.0.0-r37691-i386-mingw32\bin>irb.bat
irb(main):001:0> File.expand_path("./*", "c:/")
=> "c:/$RECYCLE.BIN"
irb(main):002:0>
mdube@arcane-technologies.com (Martin Dubé)

03:32 AM Ruby Bug #7374: File.expand_path resolving to first file/dir instead of absolute path

ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32] is working fine:
irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path("./*", "c:/temp")
=> "c:/temp/*"
mdube@arcane-technologies.com (Martin Dubé)

03:23 AM Ruby Bug #7374 (Closed): File.expand_path resolving to first file/dir instead of absolute path

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(({File.expand_path("./*", "c:)"}))
will give "c:/$recycle.bin" as result instead of "c:/*"
(({File.expand_path("./*", "c:/temp)"}))
will give "c:/temp/." as result instead of "c:/temp/*"
It looks like the first directory... mdube@arcane-technologies.com (Martin Dubé)