Forum: IronRuby File.symlink

While working with Ivan on the amp project, I came across a windows 
error
when trying to create symlinks using File.symlink. This is
well-documented<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M002533>and
has a
few <http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1697/Dir.html>
fixes<http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/246292>,
but nothing realistic. The Windows-only implementation of Ruby, wuby, 
uses
the mklink in Vista and Win7 to create symlinks. While this isn't
necessarily a consideration for IronRuby, I was wondering if any of you 
have
come across a decent solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Ryan Riley

Email: ryan.riley@panesofglass.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley
Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/
Twitter: @panesofglass
Website: http://panesofglass.org/

Wasn’t Wuby an April Fool’s joke?

I would love to see us support Junctions and links down the road, but I 
don’t see that happening until post 1.0.

JD

From: ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org 
[mailto:ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Riley
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:40 PM
To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] File.symlink

While working with Ivan on the amp project, I came across a windows 
error when trying to create symlinks using File.symlink. This is 
well-documented<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M002533> 
and has a few<http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1697/Dir.html> 
fixes<http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/246292>, 
but nothing realistic. The Windows-only implementation of Ruby, wuby, 
uses the mklink in Vista and Win7 to create symlinks. While this isn't 
necessarily a consideration for IronRuby, I was wondering if any of you 
have come across a decent solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Ryan Riley

Email: ryan.riley@panesofglass.org<mailto:ryan.riley@panesofglass.org>
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley
Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/
Twitter: @panesofglass
Website: http://panesofglass.org/

Note, that when I say this, I mean it as me, not as some official word 
from the team ;)

From: ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org 
[mailto:ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jim Deville
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 2:19 PM
To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] File.symlink

Wasn’t Wuby an April Fool’s joke?

I would love to see us support Junctions and links down the road, but I 
don’t see that happening until post 1.0.

JD

From: ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org 
[mailto:ironruby-core-bounces@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Riley
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:40 PM
To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] File.symlink

While working with Ivan on the amp project, I came across a windows 
error when trying to create symlinks using File.symlink. This is 
well-documented<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M002533> 
and has a few<http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1697/Dir.html> 
fixes<http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/246292>, 
but nothing realistic. The Windows-only implementation of Ruby, wuby, 
uses the mklink in Vista and Win7 to create symlinks. While this isn't 
necessarily a consideration for IronRuby, I was wondering if any of you 
have come across a decent solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Ryan Riley

Email: ryan.riley@panesofglass.org<mailto:ryan.riley@panesofglass.org>
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley
Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/
Twitter: @panesofglass
Website: http://panesofglass.org/

Yes, I found the link at the bottom to the definition of gullible. Hmm 
...
maybe not gullible, but certainly not journalistic material. :) At the
moment, I found a work-around, but I'd be interested into looking into 
this
further down the road.

Thanks,

Ryan Riley

Email: ryan.riley@panesofglass.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley
Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/
Twitter: @panesofglass
Website: http://panesofglass.org/