I have this statement:
File.open(some_path, 'w+') { |f| f.write(builder.to_html) }
Where
some_path = "somedir/some_subdir/some-file.html"
What I want to happen is, if there is no directory called somedir or some_subdir or both in the path, I want it to automagically create it.
How can I do that?
You can use FileUtils to recursively create parent directories, if they are not already present:
require 'fileutils'
dirname = File.dirname(some_path)
unless File.directory?(dirname)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(dirname)
end
Edit: Here is a solution using the core libraries only (reimplementing the wheel, not recommended)
dirname = File.dirname(some_path)
tokens = dirname.split(/[\/\\]/) # don't forget the backslash for Windows! And to escape both "\" and "/"
1.upto(tokens.size) do |n|
dir = tokens[0...n]
Dir.mkdir(dir) unless Dir.exist?(dir)
end
FileUtils.mkdir_p (which is the method dedicated to your use case)FileUtils#mkdir_p works even if the directory hierarchy already exists (it just does nothing) so this solution can be compressed into this can one-liner plus a require statement: FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(some_path))
For those looking for a way to create a directory if it doesn't exist, here's the simple solution:
require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.mkdir_p 'dir_name'
Based on Eureka's comment.
FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(some_path))"directory_name = "name"
Dir.mkdir(directory_name) unless File.exists?(directory_name)
How about using Pathname?
require 'pathname'
some_path = Pathname("somedir/some_subdir/some-file.html")
some_path.dirname.mkpath
some_path.write(builder.to_html)
some_path.dirname.mkpath instead of some_path.dirname.mkdir_p
mkpath. Also if you just have the directory and not the path, there's no need for dirname, e.g. Pathname("somedir/some_subdir").mkpath will work the same way.Based on others answers, nothing happened (didn't work). There was no error, and no directory created.
Here's what I needed to do:
require 'fileutils'
response = FileUtils.mkdir_p('dir_name')
I needed to create a variable to catch the response that FileUtils.mkdir_p('dir_name') sends back... then everything worked like a charm!
response = FileUtils.mkdir_p('dir_name'). If I didn't create this variable, FileUtils.mkdir_p('dir_name') wasn't working for me... or at least that's what I recall happened (this answer is more than 1 year old). I wouldn't be surprised if a newer version of Ruby fixes this issue.Along similar lines (and depending on your structure), this is how we solved where to store screenshots:
In our env setup (env.rb)
screenshotfolder = "./screenshots/#{Time.new.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")}"
unless File.directory?(screenshotfolder)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(screenshotfolder)
end
Before do
@screenshotfolder = screenshotfolder
...
end
And in our hooks.rb
screenshotName = "#{@screenshotfolder}/failed-#{scenario_object.title.gsub(/\s+/,"_")}-#{Time.new.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")}_screenshot.png";
@browser.take_screenshot(screenshotName) if scenario.failed?
embed(screenshotName, "image/png", "SCREENSHOT") if scenario.failed?
The top answer's "core library" only solution was incomplete. If you want to only use core libraries, use the following:
target_dir = ""
Dir.glob("/#{File.join("**", "path/to/parent_of_some_dir")}") do |folder|
target_dir = "#{File.expand_path(folder)}/somedir/some_subdir/"
end
# Splits name into pieces
tokens = target_dir.split(/\//)
# Start at '/'
new_dir = '/'
# Iterate over array of directory names
1.upto(tokens.size - 1) do |n|
# Builds directory path one folder at a time from top to bottom
unless n == (tokens.size - 1)
new_dir << "#{tokens[n].to_s}/" # All folders except innermost folder
else
new_dir << "#{tokens[n].to_s}" # Innermost folder
end
# Creates directory as long as it doesn't already exist
Dir.mkdir(new_dir) unless Dir.exist?(new_dir)
end
I needed this solution because FileUtils' dependency gem rmagick prevented my Rails app from deploying on Amazon Web Services since rmagick depends on the package libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu) / imagemagick (OSX) to work properly.
