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I am quite new to ruby but enjoying it so far quite immensely. There are some things that have given me some trouble and the following is no exception. What I am trying to do here is create a sort of 'super-directory' by sub-classing 'Dir'. I've added a method called 'subdirs' that is designed to list the directory object's files and push them into an array if the file is a directory itself. The issue is, the results from my test (File.directory?) is strange - here is my method code: def subdirs subdirs = Array.new self.each do |x| puts "Evaluating file: #{x}" if File.directory?(x) puts "This file (#{x}) was considered a directory by File.directory?" subdirs.push(x) #yield(x) if block_given? end end return subdirs end And strangely, even though there are plenty of directories in the directory I've chosen ("/tmp") - the result of this call only lists "." and ".." puts "Testing new Directory custom class: FileOps/DirClass" nd = Directory.new("/tmp") subs = nd.subdirs And the results: Evaluating file: mapping-root Evaluating file: orbit-jvxml Evaluating file: custom-directory Evaluating file: keyring-9x4JhZ Evaluating file: orbit-root Evaluating file: . This file (.) was considered a directory by File.directory? Evaluating file: .gdmFDB11U Evaluating file: .X0-lock Evaluating file: hsperfdata_mishii Evaluating file: .X11-unix Evaluating file: .gdm_socket Evaluating file: .. This file (..) was considered a directory by File.directory? Evaluating file: .font-unix Evaluating file: .ICE-unix Evaluating file: ssh-eqOnXK2441 Evaluating file: vesystems-package Evaluating file: mapping-jvxml Evaluating file: hsperfdata_tomcat

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