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Joshua_Muheim · 1 April 2006 12:41

Hi all

I'd like Ruby to open a folder, search it for files and then store all
files names of .png files in an array and close the folder. So after
this I can do anything I like with the png files in the array...

How do I do this? Thanks a lot for help.
Joshua

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Benjohn_Barnes · 1 April 2006 12:46

You'll want the class Dir, and the class method glob.
png_files = Dir.glob(File.join(path_of_folder, '*.png'))

Cheers,
Benj

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On 1 Apr 2006, at 13:41, Joshua Muheim wrote:

Hi all

I'd like Ruby to open a folder, search it for files and then store all
files names of .png files in an array and close the folder. So after
this I can do anything I like with the png files in the array...

How do I do this? Thanks a lot for help.
Joshua

Daniel_Seuthe · 1 April 2006 22:13

Joshua Muheim schrieb:

I'd like Ruby to open a folder, search it for files and then store all
files names of .png files in an array and close the folder. So after
this I can do anything I like with the png files in the array...

This is part of a RHTML file for showing all JPEG files as a list:

  <% bilder = Dir["*.jpeg"] %>
  <ul>
  <% bilder.sort.each do |bild| %>
  <li><a href="<%= bild %>" /><%= bild.chomp ".jpeg" %></a></li>
  <% end %>
  </ul>

This is part of a RHTML file for randomly show a picture from a
picture list like above:

<% bilder = Dir["../*.jpeg"] %>
<img src="<%=bilder[rand(bilder.length - 1)] %>" alt="" />

Daniel

Joshua_Muheim · 1 April 2006 16:06

You'll want the class Dir, and the class method glob.
png_files = Dir.glob(File.join(path_of_folder, '*.png'))

Cheers,
Benj

Thank you so far. I'm using this in Ruby on Rails and tried the
following:

@images = Dir.glob('/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/',
'*.jpg')

Sadly this delivers me an empty array, but there are about 20 jpg files
in this folder... :-/

Thanks for help... Josh

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Joshua_Muheim · 1 April 2006 16:07

Ups sorry, it doesn't return an empty array but the following error:

cannot convert String into Integer

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Stephen_Waits1 · 1 April 2006 16:26

Try:

@images = Dir.glob('/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/*.jpg')

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@images = Dir.glob('/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/',
'*.jpg')

baumanj · 2 April 2006 15:28

This is operating on the actual filesystem, so you have to use real
paths, not the URI for the web application. Try this:

File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'public')

@images = Dir.glob(File.join(RAILS_ROOT,
'public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/'), '*.jpg')

Joshua Muheim wrote:

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> You'll want the class Dir, and the class method glob.
> png_files = Dir.glob(File.join(path_of_folder, '*.png'))
>
> Cheers,
> Benj

Thank you so far. I'm using this in Ruby on Rails and tried the
following:

@images = Dir.glob('/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/',
'*.jpg')

Sadly this delivers me an empty array, but there are about 20 jpg files
in this folder... :-/

Thanks for help... Josh

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Joshua_Muheim · 4 April 2006 17:54

Thank you all, guys!

I have now the following array:

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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-01.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-02.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-03.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-04.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-05.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-06.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-07.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-08.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-09.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-10.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-11.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-12.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-13.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-14.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-15.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-16.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-17.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-18.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-19.jpg
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/Users/Josh/Webwork/PsyGuide.org/public/../config/../public/images/content/parties/photo_galleries/1/2005_10_08_-_claudias_abschieds_party-20.jpg

Is there a way to clean the path (I mean the unnecessary "/..")?

Thanks.

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Ara.T.Howard6 · 4 April 2006 18:03

list_of_paths.map!{|path| File.expand_path path}

-a

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Is there a way to clean the path (I mean the unnecessary "/..")?

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Joshua_Muheim · 4 April 2006 18:04

Oh, and how do I cut the RAILS_ROOT away again? So I can use the paths
in the RHTML file again...?

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Chris6 · 4 April 2006 18:43

You might want to look at Pathname
(http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pathname/rdoc/classes/Pathname.html)

It wraps alot of the File related libs into a nice package

Cheers

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