List of drives?

ruby-talk
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Is there a way in ruby with out extra libraries to get a list of drives?
hard drives, dvd drives, network drives, ...?

Becker

2

No.

This is highly operating system specific, and it's even hard to
define, especially when you include "network drives".

Eivind.

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On 1/20/06, ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way in ruby with out extra libraries to get a list of drives?
hard drives, dvd drives, network drives, ...?

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For Unix/Linux/MacOSX it would be rather easy, just run `mount` and parse the
output.

For Windows, you may just test every unit A: to Z:. You'll need to access the
Win32 API to look for volumes without an assigned mount point (unit letter),
such as SAN mounted volumes.

I don't know how to do it in Mac OS Classic, I never used those versions of
Mac OS.

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(En general no puedo contestar antes de 10 días)

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On Friday 20 January 2006 04:47, ruby talk wrote:

Is there a way in ruby with out extra libraries to get a list of drives?
hard drives, dvd drives, network drives, ...?

Becker

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On Windows systems, you can do:
require 'win32ole'
drives =
file_system = WIN32OLE.new( 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' )
file_system.Drives.each { |drive| drives << drive.DriveLetter }
#drives now contains a list of existing drive letters.
puts drives

There are other useful properties on the 'drive' object, including
ShareName, which will tell you the network path, for remote volumes.

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On 1/19/06, ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a way in ruby with out extra libraries to get a list of drives?
hard drives, dvd drives, network drives, ...?