# Re: Dir.bitbucket?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-dir-bitbucket/65977>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-dir-bitbucket/65977 "2006-08-22T19:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-dir-bitbucket/65977/1 "2006-08-22T19:00:53Z")

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> Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:209874]:  
> perhaps we
> 
> > could put this in FileUtils?
> 
> In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best.

That doesn’t strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn’t  
expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren’t any  
currently that I recall.

How about ftools then? There we’ve got File instead of FileUtils.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-dir-bitbucket/65977/2 "2006-08-23T05:24:31Z")

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Hi,

At Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:59:22 +0900,  
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:209903]:

> > perhaps we
> > 
> > > could put this in FileUtils?
> > 
> > In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best.
> 
> That doesn’t strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn’t  
> expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren’t any  
> currently that I recall.

Agreed.

> How about ftools then? There we’ve got File instead of FileUtils.

ftools is obsolete.

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-dir-bitbucket/65977/3 "2006-08-23T08:16:45Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

\> \> \>\> How about ftools then? There we've got File instead of FileUtils. \>\> \> \> ftools is obsolete. \> 

Maybe it’s best to keep it 3rd party then. I’m going to add File.null  
to the ptools package and put out the next release today or tomorrow.

[http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/308/README.html](http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/308/README.html)

Thanks all, for the feedback.

Regards,

Dan