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realpath

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realpath() public

Returns a real (absolute) pathname of self in the actual filesystem. The real pathname doesn’t contain symlinks or useless dots.

No arguments should be given; the old behaviour is obsoleted.

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# File lib/pathname.rb, line 446
  def realpath
    path = @path
    prefix, names = split_names(path)
    if prefix == ''
      prefix, names2 = split_names(Dir.pwd)
      names = names2 + names
    end
    prefix, *names = realpath_rec(prefix, names, {})
    self.class.new(prepend_prefix(prefix, File.join(*names)))
  end

November 7, 2010

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Will raise error on broken symlink

This method will raise Errno::ENOENT on a broken symlink. You should probably rescue it every time you call this method.

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Will raise error on broken symlink