Easier path construction using overloaded /

shmul (Shmulik Regev) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:50 GMT

Especially when writing rake tasks where a lot of path construction code is written the following overloading of the / operator makes the code more readable.





class String

  def /(other)

    File.join(self,other)

  end

end



# and you can write

#   path = all/along/the/watch/tower

# instead of 

#   path = "#{all}/#{along}/#{the}/#{watch}/#{tower}"

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Easier path construction using overloaded /