Failed in opening a File in a directory in Ruby

Question

I am trying to change the permissions of a file in the below given way.

File.chmod(0777,"util\logger\Sample.txt"). But the issue is the Sample.txt is in given path util/logger/Sample.txt.

The above operations is failing because unable to find the file name Sample.txt. I tried in this way Dir.chdir("\util\logger") and then im doing File.chmod(0777,"Sample.txt").

So again i need to get back to my base folder to do other operations. I felt little bad about this way of developing code.

So any help in accessing directly a file from a directory with out changing the current directory will greatly help me.

Thanks in advance, Aditya

'\util\logger' and 'util\logger' are different directories on the file system. — mcfinnigan
– mcfinnigan, Commented Apr 2, 2013 at 10:12
Thanks mcfinnigan....That makes sense, i was dealing with some other file. — Aditya_softwaredeveloper
– Aditya_softwaredeveloper, Commented Apr 2, 2013 at 12:24

Niels B. · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 11:19:56Z

First of all, I don't think you can use backslash as a file separator on Unix systems. Backslash in paths is a Microsoft thing. Fortunately, Ruby has a nice way of removing file seperators from paths, so they can be calculated runtime depending on the environment.

Use File.join('path', 'to', 'file.txt')

This will return a string with the value path/to/file.txt on Unix.

Aditya_softwaredeveloper · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 12:47:53Z

I resolved it this way ..

File.chmod(0777,"util/logger/Sample.txt") , Previously i try to enter /util/logger

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