File.open and File.new problem for a newbie

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Hello

I'm pretty new to ruby and I've written some code to parse apache logs, it works but now I want to store the result in a file. The problem is as follow (using irb)

irb(main):001:0> foo = File.open("test")
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - test
         from (irb):1:in `initialize'
         from (irb):1:in `open'
         from (irb):1

I just do not understand the problem ( I can create a file with python in the same directory ), what's wrong for me ?

thanks for a quick answer

Jean-François

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You must open the file for writing:

open("test", "w") do |file|
   # ...
end # -> File is automatically closed here, even if an exception is thrown.

-- Daniel

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On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Jean-Francois Boisvieux wrote:

I'm pretty new to ruby and I've written some code to parse apache logs, it works but now I want to store the result in a file. The problem is as follow (using irb)

irb(main):001:0> foo = File.open("test")
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - test
        from (irb):1:in `initialize'
        from (irb):1:in `open'
        from (irb):1

I just do not understand the problem ( I can create a file with python in the same directory ), what's wrong for me ?