Create subdirectories in Ruby

Question

I want to create a sub-directory of a directory that does not exist like: /foo/bar

I tried:

Dir.mkdir("foo/bar")

but this does not work.

Seems pretty clear what the question is here, and it has quite a clear answer. Closing it seems a bit OTT. — Lee Winder, Sep 19 '14 at 10:15
Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3686032/how-to-create-directories-recursively-in-ruby — Tom Hale, Nov 08 '16 at 11:10

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '12 at 01:51

20

If you are trying to create a directory and its parent directories, you want to use FileUtils.mkdir_p instead.

answered Aug 15 '12 at 01:51

John

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 04 '14 at 18:15

4

Is this what you're looking for?

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.mkpath('/foo/bar')

mkpath is an alias of mkdir_p.

edited Dec 04 '14 at 18:15

weakish

answered Aug 15 '12 at 01:51

Brandan

2 Answers2